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I want my Pi, not to boot to GUI but directly to a remote desktop(windows) .
Also can i ask one more thing. I installed and run the app rdesktop.
How i can deactivate the esc button from rdesktop, so the user cannot accidentally close the remote session.I need to have the remote session always active.

I want this also. I know a few people that want this ability.

Essentially we want as much of the processing as possible to take place on the "remote" server. We don't want a full OS or a browser. We want only mouse, keyboard, sound and video to pass over the network from the server to the Pi.


Anyone doing this?

You basically need an Xserver for rdesktop ... the easiest solution I see is to add rdesktop to your session startup items.

The command to enter is the following: See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=824710 for some info on the command line options.

To overrule a key use in Linux.

So, keyvalue for Esc is 9, so you want to run that on startup, add it to your .login:


xmodmap -e 'keycode 9='

Note. that this will disable your ESC key.

i added ./remote.sh to the bottom of the file /etc/profile to call the remote desktop script i placed in the /home/pi directory. within that script i used:

#!/bin/bash

sudo rdesktop -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD -d DOMAINNAME(ex:CORP) -k en-us -n Pi_USERNAME -f -s C:\\Scripts\\remote.bat SERVERNAME

it automatically logs into a terminal server (before the Pi even fully boots) and runs the files i need.

Another route is to go with http://rpitc.blogspot.nl/
It will need some minor tweaking to autostart your favourite rdesktop environment. But it is quite lightweight.