XFREERDP(1)

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 ([xref to varlistentry]) 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 [xref to varlistentry].

-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]:

        •   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

 http://www.freerdp.com/: http://www.freerdp.com/

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