RDesktop question

[DHR]

I'm after setting up a shortcut in gnome for rdesktop, i'm after it doing the following....

rdesktop -a 16

....but prompting for the server address, is this possible?


edit: i'm currently running it from a terminal window and having to manually specify the server param, is there any way of making sure the terminal window closes right after rdesktop executes?

 

[matja]

Rdesktop doesnt provide a gui where you can enter the server IP.

You could check out grdesktop, which is a GTK+ frontend for rdesktop, or check out tsclient (my favorite), which is a front-end for rdesktop, VNC and citrix metaframe.

If you still want to use rdesktop, you could make a wrapper script for it that does something like this :

#!/bin/bash
read server
exec rdesktop -a16 $server

"read server" will read a whitespace-delimited string from the consle and place in the variable $server.
"exec ..." will replace the current process with the command, so that when it exits, the caller process will exit too.

Hopefully that should do what you want.