On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 13:50 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 10:51:48AM -0500, Cal Webster wrote:
rdesktop has been spewing error messages since the update to CentOS 6.4. Aside from the continuous stream of errors in the terminal window from which it was launched, there are a number of usability issues in the remote session. The pointer does not change shape when moving over various window components such as column separators, window borders, etc. The background doesn't refresh within scroll bars, making it difficult to tell where the scroll handle is. We've also found that MS Visio will crash and hang the remote system if run within rdesktop. Other strange phenomenon are also manifest in various applications. In short, rdesktop 1.6.0-10 is buggy and unstable. See this upstream bug report for more:
Bug 914279 - regression in 1.6.0-10.el6: Mousepointer and selections not drawn properly https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914279
there is a newer version upstream (meaning the author's web site), but I don't know if it solves these problems.
1.8.0 is available from http://www.rdesktop.org/#download
I know, we all hate to override the package manager with un-packaged programs, but sometimes you just gotta.
It quickly becomes impossible to manage anything more than a handful of systems without a reliable package management system. Unmanaged apps suck away valuable time. I'm sure the latest-and-greatest will make its way into Fedora where a maintainer will re-package it into an RPM. For now, I'm happy to rebuild the Fedora SRPM until and upstream (Red Hat) SRPM is published. As I indicated, it's trivial to rebuild.