rdc

A remote desktop (xfreerdp) connections manager.

Files

• settings.py: tunables
• model.py: takes care of loading and saving the user's configuration file to the GTK GUI and back
• tests/: contains unit tests
• connection.py: functions that actually call xfreerdp
• rdp_ui.py: the gui and the main routines
• ui_prorotype.glade: prototype for the gui, open with glade-3 . Only a prototype, GUI wasn't generated by it

Conf files

1. ~/.rdp_connections - list of user's RDP connection entries

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Format: :

:: e.g. My Server:1.2.3.4:foo:mydomain

Notes:

1. newline character after each entry

2. fields could be left empty but three colons (:::) must appear

3. Illegal lines should be skipped

4. Check the log for detailed info on conf file parsing

5. Being both read & written by rdc_ui

6. ~/.rdp_general - general user settings

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Format: = e.g. readonly=yes

Allowed keywords (see model.py file for most up-to-date list):

• readonly (only if set to 'yes' it has an effect, all other values do nothing). Note that '-r' flag also sets readonly to yes.

Notes:

1. Illegal lines are skipped
2. Check the log for detailed info on conf file parsing
3. Not being written/modified by rdc_ui

GUI

GUI widgets are created in RdpUI class inside rdp_ui.py module. Most of the GUI creation is done from init() method, which calls some other methods such as create_window(), create_buttons(). It tries to be as readable as possible..

Requirements

• Python 2.x (2.6 and up)
• PyGTK 2 (rpm name: pygtk2)
• gconf (rpm name: gnome-python2-gconf)
• xfreerdp

Was developed and tested on CentOS 6.0:

• The OS's original Python and Python modules
• A manually installed xfreerdp 0.8.2

Troubleshooting

1. Set logging to logging.DEBUG (in settings.py) and run rdc_ui.py from the console. Lots of informative messages would be printed

Unit tests

The project contains a few unit tests, as it's mostly GUI which is hard to test. To run the unittest simply run 'nosetests .' when inside the project's directory. (requires the 'nose' directory)

Deployment

Easiest deployment is simply unpacking the project's directory into /opt/, e.g. /opt/rdc/. Then running /opt/rdc/rdc_ui.py should do.

Author

Oren Held Written on Dec 2011