I think I will add a feature request at rdesktop. I am using Gnome-RDP
+ rdesktop on my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop to connect to a Windows 7 box over
Wifi. The software I'm mainly using is the graphics intensive Google
Sketchup which is easy, free CAD. The screen transition is relativley
smooth, and I'
Just FYI, on the Windows side, it looks like it only supports up to 24-bits.
Here is a quote from technet:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457106.aspx
"Remote Desktop supports as many colors as the client computer will support, up
to 24-bit color. It automatically detects the colo
gnome-rdp front-ends rdesktop, therefore...
>From the rdesktop man page.
-a
Sets the colour depth for the connection (8, 15, 16 or 24).
More than 8 bpp are only supported when connecting to Windows XP (up to 16 bpp)
or newer. Note that the colour depth may also be limit