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How to customize Terminal Server Client(tsclient) specified screen size?

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rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. The rdesktop supported servers include Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows NT Server 4.0.

The rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window System, and other ports should be fairly straightforward.

I have an Ubuntu Hardy x64 running on my Dell desktop and another Dell laptop running Windows XP Professional with screen resolution 1152 x 1024.

How to launch rdesktop on Ubuntu Hardy?
Click Applications -> click Internet -> click Terminal Server Client(tsclient).

Enter computer name or IP address, select RDP protocol, enter username & password, and click open. Basically you should be able to connect to your remote desktop computer or server.

If you click on Display, and click use specified screen size, then you should be able to see default Specified Screen Size as below:
640 x 480
800 x 600
1024 x 768
1152 x 864
1280 x 960
1400 x 1250

What happen if I need to have different screen size? Don’t worry! You can use a command line

Let me show you “How to customize Terminal Server Client(tsclient) specified screen size using command line?”

Open a Terminal windows, and type:


rdesktop -g 1152x1024 -a 24 servername/IP Address

which I will get 1152 x 1024 screen resolution for my rdp connection.

RTFM -> man rdesktop

-g <geometry> or <screen resolution>
Desktop geometry (WxH). If geometry is the special word ”workarea”, the geometry will be fetched from the extended window manager hints property _NET_WORKAREA, from the root window. The geometry can also be specified as a percentage of the whole screen, e.g. “-g 80%”.

-a <bpp> or <color depth>
Sets  the  colour depth for the connection (8, 15, 16 or 24).  More than 8 bpp are only supported when connecting to Windows XP (up to 16 bpp) or newer.  Note that the colour depth may also be limited by the server configuration. The default value is the depth of the root window.

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One Response to “How to customize Terminal Server Client(tsclient) specified screen size?”

  1. Planet Malaysia Says:

    July 15th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    Damm… tsclient caused my laptop - Windows XP blue screen for more than 3 times today.

    If you would like to exit from full screen, you can try: CTRL-ALT-Backspace(not work for me), Alt-F1 or CTRL-ALT-F1 and kill the rdesktop process..

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