I'm helping a friend set up Remote Desktop Connection on Linux, so that he could connect to his PC at work. But he's not that familiar with Linux and I'm trying to help him out. I tried making the whole thing as simple as possible. I've set up a shortcut on the desktop, so all it takes is to double click on the rdesktop .desktop entry and all he'd have to enter is his password.
Everything worked fine on Linux Mint, but somehow doesn't in Lubuntu. You see, when on Linux Mint, the login window was centered, on Lubuntu, it's way off to the right (seen on the image below). And that means when he logs in to his remote desktop, all windows are off-screen too, so basically a percentage of window is lost on the right side of the screen.
The command I'm using in my .desktop entry is this:
rdesktop -f -u test -d TEST -r clipboard:PRIMARYCLIPBOARD -r disk:share=/home/User/Desktop/remote [insert IP here]
So this particular command worked fine in Linux Mint.
I've also tried setting a particular resolution, so to see if it'd work in windowed mode, by removing the -f
key and replacing it with -g 1680x1010
(actual resolution on monitor settings is 1680x1050, but I had to cut some height, because a tiny bit of the window would be cut off by taskbar), and that worked just fine, except... it's not full screen, and he'd like it to be full screen. I also tried to combine the -f
and -g 1680x1010
switches, but the screen would still be off on full screen, everything leaning to right. I also tried setting it by percentage, -g 90%
, and that didn't help either.
When I exited the full screen mode (with CTRL+ALT+ENTER) and made a screenshot of the rdesktop window, I'd actually see the cause of the problem.
You see, rdesktop thinks that my monitor is way bigger than it actually is. Or it thinks I have multiple monitors hooked up. The screenshot's resolution came to be 2480x1025.
I hope you understood the problem here. Long story short is that I need to get Remote Desktop Connection working, as easy as possible - a double click on the desktop entry and it'd launch in full screen and all a user would do, is enter their password. He could probably live with windowed rdesktop as well, but if the same thing worked on Linux Mint, but doesn't on Lubuntu, I'm pretty sure, there's a way to get the whole thing working on Lubuntu too.