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Re: Puppy 4.1 doesn't play nice with remotedesktop

#16 Post by ttuuxxx »

peterzeke wrote:
So, good news is that both of ttuuxxx's pet files (rdesktop 1.6 and the network wizard) now make for a truly satisfying puppy experience.

Thanks again ttuuxxx!

--pete
The network file isn't mine its made by dougal I only found you the link, I read good things about it :wink:
You can read about it here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31522
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Ps I don't think gnocl is needed with this setup, since this front end is gtk, and not tcl.
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#17 Post by peterzeke »

ttuuxxx wrote:Well while you found the answers I also made up this package to make life easier for you.
I first compiled Terminal Server Client, which is a GTK front end for rdesktop, Then added rdesktop and finally added gnocl.
So basically its all in one plus you can run from
Menu/Networking/Terminal Server Client


below is a picture of Terminal Server Client it has lots of options, Please report back how it works,
hope you enjoy it
ttuuxxx

Yeah, man! Works great.

When I first installed your tsclient pet I didn't see it listed under Menu/Network. So my first thought was "darn it". But, then I remembered that linux isn't Windows or Mac, so I went digging around the file manager to see if I could locate the tsclient -- success!

I've since discovered that I can copy the the tsclient.desktop file to the desktop so that I have a convenient icon to click.

How can I add the program under Menu/Network?

By the way, I've got everything running on puppy 4.1 -- not having to reconfig the wireless settings on each boot is awesome, and your remote desktop solution makes my laptop experience absolutely complete. Many thanks, ttuuxxx

--pete

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#18 Post by ttuuxxx »

well it should have a menu item
All you have to do when you install a program is
open a terminal and type
fixmenus
then go to menu/shutdown/restart JWM
and it will fix the menus with a new icon in the proper location
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#19 Post by peterzeke »

ttuuxxx wrote:well it should have a menu item
All you have to do when you install a program is
open a terminal and type
fixmenus
then go to menu/shutdown/restart JWM
and it will fix the menus with a new icon in the proper location
ttuuxxx
Ps your welcome :wink: , Glad I could help

Thanks for the screenshot. I was looking to find tsclient listed after "Superscan network scanner". It didn't occur to me to look further up the menu list.

Nevertheless, thanks for the tip on issuing a fixmenus command.
--pete

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#20 Post by mneekhra »

ttuuxxx wrote:well it should have a menu item
All you have to do when you install a program is
open a terminal and type
fixmenus
then go to menu/shutdown/restart JWM
and it will fix the menus with a new icon in the proper location
ttuuxxx
Ps your welcome :wink: , Glad I could help
We want to devlop a linux image of puppy which can boot from CF Card and only RDP Conectivity could you please help for it.

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#21 Post by DC »

Hi all,
I've installed rdesktop-1.6.0-i386.pet and the 1.6 update to Puppy 4.1
the popup opens ok but nothing happens while trying to connect.
from the commandline comes this problem

<~>#remotedesktopclient

(remotedesktopclient:5229): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "clearlooks",


Any pointers please

DC

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#22 Post by ttuuxxx »

DC wrote:Hi all,
I've installed rdesktop-1.6.0-i386.pet and the 1.6 update to Puppy 4.1
the popup opens ok but nothing happens while trying to connect.
from the commandline comes this problem

<~>#remotedesktopclient

(remotedesktopclient:5229): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "clearlooks",


Any pointers please

DC
Thats crazy that its asking for that
Here's clearlooks
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=12218

its a theme engine, but hey your puppy will look better for it :)
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#23 Post by DC »

hi ttuuxxx,

Thanks for the link, got rid of the error message.but
still not working, will try again tommorow

DC

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Re: Puppy 4.1 doesn't play nice with remotedesktop

#24 Post by Diggs »

peterzeke wrote:
It seems no matter how I install remote desktop, it never shows up on the screen. It will list on the menu under network, but nothing happens after I select it (the hard drive does do a little activity, but that's it).
--pete
Same here. The menu shortcut does nothing. I did create an executable script which will start rdesktop and connect it to a Windows 2003 server at work that looks like-

rdesktop -g 800x600 -a 16 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -u myname -d mydomain

It connects great but the problem is it constantly crashes to the desktop. Sometimes it happens as soon as I give my password to log in. Other times I get connected and actually bring up an app or two to work with before it crashes. Very random. At first I thought it might be just the video and the process was still running, but process manager shows that rdesktop has terminated.

Any thoughts? What should I check next?

The prospect of using Puppy on an ancient laptop to control a 3 Ghz quad core server with 10 TB of storage (SAN) is a bit ironic. I'd like to get the bugs ironed out.

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#25 Post by silvar »

ttuuxxx wrote:Well while you found the answers I also made up this package to make life easier for you.
I first compiled Terminal Server Client, which is a GTK front end for rdesktop, Then added rdesktop and finally added gnocl.
So basically its all in one plus you can run from
Menu/Networking/Terminal Server Client


below is a picture of Terminal Server Client it has lots of options, Please report back how it works,
hope you enjoy it
ttuuxxx
This works a treat for me but am wanting the rdesktop app to start up so that it directly goes into the remote login screen. What would be the best/easiest way to accomplish this?

BTW love the discussions here.

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#26 Post by silvar »

Oops, double post

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#27 Post by Diggs »

silvar wrote: This works a treat for me but am wanting the rdesktop app to start up so that it directly goes into the remote login screen. What would be the best/easiest way to accomplish this?

BTW love the discussions here.
That is exactly what I posted above. Create the one line file. Using chmod make it executable and put a shortcut on the desktop.

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#28 Post by Diggs »

Sorry, hate to bump threads but I still can't get rdesktop stable. It continues to crash to the desktop at random usually shortly after login when bringing up the first app or two on the remote server. This doesn't give much to go on, but how do I log what event causes it to crash so I can review it later to make a diagnosis?

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#29 Post by ttuuxxx »

Diggs wrote:Sorry, hate to bump threads but I still can't get rdesktop stable. It continues to crash to the desktop at random usually shortly after login when bringing up the first app or two on the remote server. This doesn't give much to go on, but how do I log what event causes it to crash so I can review it later to make a diagnosis?
try running it via command line with -vv
and see if it displays the error outputs
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#30 Post by HairyWill »

ttuuxxx wrote:try running it via command line with -vv
and see if it displays the error outputs
ttuuxxx
rdesktop does not support -vv or -v options
http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdesktop
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cannot seem to find rdesktop

#31 Post by shigles »

I installed the pet that tuuxx had made, it installed icwin, but I cannot find where it put rdesktop.

Help please!

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Re: cannot seem to find rdesktop

#32 Post by RobertB »

shigles wrote:I installed the pet that tuuxx had made, it installed icwin, but I cannot find where it put rdesktop.

Help please!
Did you try running it from the command line?

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#33 Post by Luke »

Thanks ttuuxxx :o
This rdp client work great for my puppy 4.2.1.
I am able to connect to my office winXP box.

I connect to my office LAN using a Juniper SSL VPN though Firefox 2.0.07, then I can RDP to my win box.

Though this work great, if I use full screen mode, the display on my RDP connection once I am looking at the windows desktop, does not refresh properly and I see many renmants of the last GUIs I opened, e.g. task manager, txt files, etc. I am still testing various display setting on the ts client to avoid this.

gcmartin

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#34 Post by gcmartin »

ttuuxxx wrote:well it should have a menu item
All you have to do when you install a program is
open a terminal and type
fixmenus
then go to menu/shutdown/restart JWM
and it will fix the menus with a new icon in the proper location
ttuuxxx
Before using this and before starting the trek to getting a simple straightforward implementation on what I see as the most simple Linux desktop for the modern age (PUPPY), I want to THANK "ttuuxxx" for his fine investigation on rdesktop. Assuming Puppy proponents can make this simple, this is a major application for teckies and newbies, alike in the Puppy environment.

I believe that this topic needs a "howto" and I believe that the forum isn't ubiquitous enough. What would it take for either a Howto document or a howto video on this? This is a MAJOR TOPIC and has very widespread use.

Even if Puppy decides to include the work of "ttuuxxx" (and this is very good clean implementation), a howto would still be useful as administrators and users could get a simple guide to remote Desktop Connections to a MS machine (XP Pro, Vista Business, all MS servers, Windows7 Enterprise, etc.)

Finally, if this application does become included somehow, most of the questions and the issues that I see here should diminish or disappear.

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#35 Post by mika2008 »

hello, can u have te last pet of the tseclient 2.0.1, please?

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