Re: change to other Desktop

[Roland Schulz <mail@xxxxxxx>]

Hey,

> Another option would be to run a separate X server with rdesktop full
> screen as the 'window manager' for the second X server session -- then
> CTRL-ALT-F8 takes you to your full screen rdesktop session and alt-F7 takes
> you back to your standard X server.  This requires a quick fix to your
> startx script and some hacking of your .xinit if you want to run the second
> X server.  I could help with both if you'd like to try that option.
Because of my setup, I can't use a second X server.

> It sounds as if the best option would be to have an exclude list of keys
> for your rdesktop client that could be configured, but that would require
> coding, and the rdesktop coders seem pretty busy with other things.
Well how do I grab all but some keys? Right now XGrabKeyboard is used in 
gl/xwin.c. The only other function I found is XGrabKey. But then I would need 
to grab all keys one by one, because IMHO it only supports grabbing one key 
at a time.

>
>
> --Mark McCorkle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Schulz [mailto:mail@r2s2.de]
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:33 PM
> To: rdesktop@rdesktop.org
> Subject: Re: change to other Desktop
>
>
> 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

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Mit freundlichem Gruß

Roland Schulz