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CTL-ALT-END does not work in rdesktop

Posted: 5. Aug 2009, 02:05
by bgee22
Host machine is CentOS 5.3 64 bit, the guest machine is Windows XP Pro 32-bit. VRDP is turned on for the guest.

From a machine running Fedora 11 I use rdesktop to connect to the VRDP port for the Windows XP guest. Everything works except CTL-ALT-END. Nothing I do has made rdesktop feed a ctl-alt-del equivalent to the guest.

I tried using rdesktop-vrdp on the host machine to connect to the guest. It connected happily but would not send a ctl-alt-del equivalent.

Rdesktop running on the Fedora11 machine will happily run all my Linux VMs, and if I login from the console first it is happy to run the Windows VM as well.

Does anyone have suggestions? How can I feed a ctl-alt-del equivalent to a Windows guest using rdesktop?

Bill Gee