.TH rdesktop 1 "2017-10-28" .SH NAME .I rdesktop \- Remote Desktop Protocol client .SH SYNOPSIS .B rdesktop [options] server[:port] .br .SH DESCRIPTION .I rdesktop is a client for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), used in a number of Microsoft products. It is known to work with Microsoft Windows server versions ranging from NT 4 terminal server to Windows Server 2012 R2. .SH OPTIONS .TP .BR "-u " Username for authentication on the server. .TP .BR "-d " Domain for authentication. .TP .BR "-s " Startup shell for the user - starts a specific application instead of Explore. If SeamlessRDP is enabled this is the application which is started in seamless mode. .TP .BR "-c " The initial working directory for the user. Often used in combination with -s to set up a fixed login environment. .TP .BR "-p " The password to authenticate with. Note that this may have no effect if "Always prompt for password" is enabled on the server. WARNING: if you specify a password on the command line it may be visible to other users when they use tools like ps. Use -p - to make rdesktop request a password at startup (from standard input). .TP .BR "-n " Client hostname. Normally rdesktop automatically obtains the hostname of the client. .TP .BR "-k " Keyboard layout to emulate. This requires a corresponding keymap file to be installed. The standard keymaps provided with rdesktop follow the RFC1766 naming scheme: a language code followed by a country code if necessary - e.g. en-us, en-gb, de, fr, sv, etc. The default keyboard map depends on the current locale (LC_* and LANG environment variables). If the current locale is unknown, the default keyboard map is en-us (a US English keyboard). The keyboard maps are file names, which means that they are case sensitive. The standard keymaps are all in lowercase. The keyboard maps are searched relative to the directories $HOME/.rdesktop/keymaps, KEYMAP_PATH (specified at build time), and $CWD/keymaps, in this order. The keyboard-map argument can also be an absolute filename. The special value `none' can be used instead of a keyboard map. In this case, rdesktop will guess the scancodes from the X11 event key codes using an internal mapping method. This method only supports the basic alphanumeric keys and may not work properly on all platforms so its use is discouraged. .TP .BR "-g " Desktop geometry (WxH[@DPI][+X[+Y]]). If geometry is the special word "workarea", the geometry will be fetched from the extended window manager hints property _NET_WORKAREA, from the root window. The geometry can also be specified as a percentage of the whole screen, e.g. "-g 80%", "-g 80%x70%". If the specified geometry depends on the screen size, and the screen size is changed, rdesktop will automatically reconnect using the new screen size. This requires that rdesktop has been compiled with RandR support. The optional DPI parameter should be specified if the screen rdesktop is being displayed on is too far from 96 DPI for unscaled Windows to be readable. Windows currently accepts values from 96 to 480. Offset placement of window is optional. Starting point is upper left corner of screen. Window manager might push into visible area, if a panel would be covered. The schema is "-g ++, f.e. "-g 30%+200+600". .TP .BR "-i" Use password as smartcard pin. If a valid user certificate is matched in smart card reader the password passed with \f-p\fR argument is used as pin for the smart card. This feature also requires that smart card redirection is used using \f-r scard\fR argument. .TP .BR "-f" Enable fullscreen mode. This overrides the window manager and causes the rdesktop window to fully cover the current screen. Fullscreen mode can be toggled at any time using Ctrl-Alt-Enter. .TP .BR "-b" Force the server to send screen updates as bitmaps rather than using higher-level drawing operations. .TP .BR "-t" Disable use of remote control. This will disable features like seamless connection sharing. .TP .BR "-A " Enable SeamlessRDP by specifying the path to seamless rdp shell. In this mode, rdesktop creates a X11 window for each window on the server side. This mode requires the SeamlessRDP server side component, which is available from \fIhttp://www.cendio.com/seamlessrdp/\fR. When using this option, you should normally specify a startup shell which launches the desired application through SeamlessRDP. Example: rdesktop -A 'c:\\seamlessrdp\\seamlessrdpshell.exe' -s 'notepad' mywts.domain.com Any subsequential call to the above command line example will make use of the seamless connection sharing feature which spawns another notepad in the current connection to the specified server and then exit. .TP .BR "-V " Set the Transport Level Security (also known as SSL) Version used. Should be one of the following values: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2. By default all versions are supported. .TP .BR "-B" Use the BackingStore of the Xserver instead of the integrated one in rdesktop. .TP .BR "-e" Disable encryption. This option is only needed (and will only work) if you have a French version of NT TSE. .TP .BR "-E" Disable encryption from client to server. This sends an encrypted login packet, but everything after this is unencrypted (including interactive logins). .TP .BR "-m" Do not send mouse motion events. This saves bandwidth, although some Windows applications may rely on receiving mouse motion. .TP .BR "-M" Use local X cursor inherited from window manager instead of server cursor. This is mostly useful with -m, but is also useful if the server is sending bogus mouse cursors. .TP .BR "-C" Use private colourmap. This will improve colour accuracy on an 8-bit display, but rdesktop will appear in false colour when not focused. .TP .BR "-D" Hide window manager decorations, by using MWM hints. .TP .BR "-K" Do not override window manager key bindings. By default rdesktop attempts to grab all keyboard input when it is in focus. .TP .BR "-S