xfreerdp(1) - Linux man page
Name
xfreerdp - FreeRDP X11 client
Synopsis
xfreerdp [options] server[:port] [[options] server[:port] ...]
Description
xfreerdp is an X11 Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client which is part of the FreeRDP project. An RDP server is built-in to many editions of Windows. Alternative servers included xrdp and VRDP (VirtualBox).
Options
-0
- Attach to the admin console of the server.
- -a bpp
- Sets the color depth for the connection to bpp bits per pixel. Valid values are 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32. The default value is the color depth of the FreeRDP-window.
- -c dir
- Sets the working-dir to dir. This parameter is only used when an AlternateShell (-s shell) is requested. dir should contain the executable file specified in the AlternateShell.
- -D
- Removes the windows decorations.
- -d
- Domain used in authentication.
- -f
- start in full screen mode. This mode can always be en- and disabled using Ctrl-Alt-Enter.
- -T text
- Sets the window title to text.
- -g geometry
- Sets the size of the FreeRDP window (and of the remote desktop, when establishing a new connection). geometry can have one of the following
forms:
- • WxH - in this case the resulting window will be of WxH pixels.
- • P% - in this case the resulting window will be P% of your screen.
- • The special keyword workarea - in this case the resulting window will be of the same size as your workarea.
- -k id
- Sets the keyboard-layout-id to id.
- -m
- Don't send mouse motion events.
- -n hostname
- Set the reported client hostname to hostname. Default is to automatically detect the hostname.
- -o
- Play audio on the console instead of redirecting to the client.
- -p password
- Password used in authentication.
- -s shell
- Sets the startup-shell to shell. This parameter should contain a complete path to the alternate shell. If the alternete shell requires a different working directory use -c dir.
- -t port
- Connect to port, instead of the default 3389.
- -u username
- Username used in authentication.
- -x flag
- Set the experiance performance flags. flag can be one of:
- • m - (modem): Equivalent to 15.
- • b - (broadband): Equivalent to 1.
- • l - (lan): Equivalent to 0.
- • num - A hexadecimal number that represents a bit-mask, were numbers mean the following [1] :
- • WxH - in this case the resulting window will be of WxH pixels.
• 1: Disable desktop wallpaper.
• 2: Disable full-window drag (only the window outline is displayed when the window is moved).
• 4: Disable menu animations.
• 8: Disable user interface themes.
• 20: Disable mouse cursor shadows.
• 40: Disable cursor blinking.
• 80: Enable font smoothing.
• 100: Enable Desktop Composition.
- -z
Enable compression.
- --app
initialize a RemoteApp connection. This implies -g workarea.
- --ext
load an extension
- --no-auth
Skips authentication. This is useful e.g. for the current FreeRDP server that doesn't yet support server-side authentication.
- --no-fastpath
Disables fast-path. Use slow-path packets instead, which have larger headers. It might be good for debugging certain issues when you suspect it might be linked to the parsing of one of the two header types.
- --gdi
GDI rendering backend. backend can be either sw (software) or hw (hardware).
- --no-osb
Disable off screen bitmaps.
- --no-bmp-cache
Disable bitmap cache.
- --plugin
load a plugin
- --rfx
Enable RemoteFX.
- --rfx-mode
RemoteFX operational flags. flags can be either v[ideo], i[mage]), default is video.
- --nsc
Enable NSCodec.
- --disable-wallpaper
Disable wallpaper.
- --composition
Enable composition (RDVH only, not to be confused with remote composition).
- --disable-full-window-drag
Disable full window drag.
- --disable-menu-animations
Disable menu animations.
- --disable-theming
Disable theming.
- --no-rdp
Disable Standard RDP encryption.
- --no-tls
Disable TLS encryption.
- --no-nla
Disable network level authentication.
- --sec proto
force protocol security. proto can be one of rdp, tls or nla.
- --ntlm
force NTLM protocol version. version can be one of 1 or 2.
- --ignore-certificate
ignore verification of logon certificate.
- --version
Print version information.
Links
Author
The FreeRDP Team
Notes
- 1.
Taken from MS-RDPBCGR Section 2.2.1.11.1.1.1 - Extended Info Packet
2.
MS-RDPBCGR Section 2.2.1.11.1.1.1 - Extended Info Packet
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc240476%28v=prot.10%29.aspx