========================================== FreeRDP: A Remote Desktop Protocol client.

FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol client that implements RDP following the documentation released under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise.

Support

• Homepage: http://freerdp.com/
• Wiki: http://www.freerdp.com/wiki/

Libraries used (Ubuntu package names - may not apply to all environments)

• Xorg-dev
• libssl-dev (OpenSSL)
• libcups2-dev (CUPS 1.3/1.4)
• libasound2-dev (ALSA)

Using git-master source

1. Install autogen, automake, and gettext.
2. "git clone git://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP.git"
3. "cd freerdp"
4. "sh autogen.sh"

Compiling & installing (git-master or release)

1. As a root-capable user, install what libraries you require. 2a. Stable users: download the latest release archive. 2b. Edge users: follow the git-master source procedure.
2. "./configure"
3. "make"
4. As a root-capable user, "make install"

The default is to install under /usr/local. This can be changed by adding --prefix=directory to the configure line.

Using FreeRDP

• Running xfreerdp (or relative binary) by itself will display help.
• Note that the server name must be the last option
• xfreerdp plugins expand features available by the software. They are installed in (install)/lib/freerdp/ .

Examples of using xfreerdp

• Remote clipboard access xfreerdp --plugin cliprdr -g 900x600 (server)
• Comport redirection & clipboard access xfreerdp --plugin cliprdr --plugin rdpdr --data serial:COM1:/dev/ttyUSB0 -- -g 900x600 (server)