Re: change to other Desktop

[Roland Schulz <mail@xxxxxxx>]

Hey Marc,

>   I agree with Rich, in that all that I have is a work-around as well. 
> When I run rdesktop, I do so with the -g option and I make the window
> nearly full screen, just leaving my right hand gnome panel visible, so that
> whenever I want to change desktops, I just have to get my keyboard focus
> out of my rdesktop window and into the panel area, hit alt-F1 and I'm at my
> new terminal.
The only problem I have with this solution is, that when I press ALT and drag 
the mouse the window moves. 

>  The only other option I'd see is to get rdesktop to exclude
> certain key combinations (such as the alt-function key combination I use
> for my virtual terminals) but as of yet, it seems rdestop passes almost
> everything to the target server.  Hope that helps.
When you use the patch from http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop you have 
the -K switch to activate the windowmager keys. The problem with it, is that 
the fullscreen mode doesn't work together with kde - rdesktop stays in the 
foreground after a desktop switch.
But with kstart (a kde program) I found a workaround to emulate the fullsreen 
mode:
kstart --skippager --skiptaskbar --type Override --ontop rdesktop {host} -g 
{xres}x{yres} -K
This way it works quite nice. The only thing not optimal is that all 
windowmager keys are activated not only those for switching desktop.

Roland Schulz