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Alan
Asked: 2014-02-11 20:58:57 +0800 CST

Create launcher shortcut for RDesktop

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I am trying to create a 'shortcut' that I can pin to my launcher in Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS that will launch an RDesktop session.

It works fine from the command line thus:

rdesktop -u UserName -d Domain -g 1024x720 -a 16 ServerName

I found something close in Terminal command script launcher, but it does not quite work.

I made the desktop file that contains this (made it executable etc as per the link above):

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=RDP-ServerName
Comment=Open an RDP session to ServerName
Exec=rdesktop -u UserName -d Domain -g 1024x720 -a 16 ServerName
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;Application;

I figured if I could get it to work from the desktop, then I could somehow pin it to the launcher afterwards?

However, when I run it from the desktop, nothing seems to happen. I tried choosing the 'terminal' option, and also the 'run' option, but neither seems to work.

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3 Answers

  1. You can just copy your *.desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications.

    Or use alacarte application for this.

    sudo apt-get install alacarte
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  2. Best Answer

    Had a similar issue with xfreerdp client. Passing parameters from the command line using the terminal works, but could not make it work at first using a desktop launcher (shorcut, in Windows terminology). The solution was to create a script to call the client:

    ~/bin/RDPWindows.sh:

    xfreerdp /d: /u:username /p:password /v:10.10.10.10 /size:100% /dynamic-resolution

    Then, creating a launcher pointing to the script works just fine.

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  3. For the Exec= line Try /usr/bin/rdesktop as the command to execute. That worked for me when creating a shortcut on my desktop.

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