This file documents some of all patches for rdesktop, floating around the net, and how they are related to the current (CVS) version of rdesktop. Things left to do are marked with TBD (To Be Done). URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/Makefile.diff Description: Makefile changes which makes it possible to compile rdesktop on SunOS and OSF1. Status: Applied (slightly modified) URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/assar_19-7-2.hostlen.patch Description: Fix for hostnames longer than 30 chars. Status: Applied (revision 1.11 of secure.c) URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/backingstore+privatecolormap-for-19-3-9.patch Description: This adds support for 1) Private color maps (useful for 8 bpp mode) and 2) backingstore selection. Status: 1) is not needed anymore; rdesktop automatically uses Private color map in 8 bpp mode. 2) is, as far as I understand, also not need. rdesktop automatically uses a software backing store if the Xserver does not provide one. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/ben_xwin.c.diff Description: Fixes for CapsLock and NumLock. Status: Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/ctrl1nohang.diff Description: Fixes problem with ctrl1 hangs. Status: Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/downkeypatch.diff Description: Seems to keep track of the remote modifier status. Status: Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/fasttext2+nobackpixmap.patch Description: (From http://mail.rdesktop.org/archive/2001/msg00218.html): 1) Added --no-backpixmap option to disable the ugly double drawing in xwin.c (I have a very robust backing storage in my X, so I don't need it ;) 2) More optimizations to text draw (previous fast-text patch was included in 192-3-6-2). In text drawing with solid background the glyphs are drawn with stippled fill instead of XCopyPlane (runs faster on my S3Trio64 with XFree 3.3.6, please test it on other configurations to validate this). The WinTach not show any improvement with this change, it seems to use all transparent background text draws, but with a old PC Magazine Winbench (3.1) doing the scroll text test the speed gain is significative. 3) My Previous patch to disable backing storage in fullscreen Status: 1) is not relevant any more, since rdesktop only uses backing store if the Xserver does not provide backing store. Need to examine if 2) and 3) are still useful. TBD. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/francisco_fix_patblt.html Description: The colors in patterns drawn with "pattern blt" order was inverted (fg & bg). (See the background of the yellow help banners) Status: Applied (in revision 1.29, 2002/07/14) URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/frank_1linerfix.html Description: ui_create_glyph was not called with ipattern. Status: Applied (in revision 1.29, 2002/07/14). URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/frank_fasttext.patch.txt Description: Some kind of performence improvements. Status: From what I can tell, this patch is no longer necessary. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/hostname-patch Description: (From http://mail.rdesktop.org/archive/2001/msg00163.html): rdesktop uses gethostname to figure out the hostname, but gethostname under linux returns an error when the hostname is longer than the buffer. This hack gives gethostname a 64 char buffer and then strips the first 16 chars or upto the first '.' and puts the result in hostname[16]. Status: Applied in version 1.10 of rdesktop.c. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/hove-19-7-2endian.diff Description: Includes a program for testing endianness. Status: rdesktop determines endianness at runtime. This patch is not needed anymore. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/mmihalik_19-7-3-keyfix-4.patch Description: Some kind of new alternative keyboard mapping imlementation. Status: Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/norbert_fullscreen.patch Description: Fullscreen mode. Status: Applied. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/norbert_percent.txt Description: Makes is possible to specify RDP geometry based a percent value of the current desktop size. Status: Not applied. I don't think many people will need this. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/norbert_rdp_tcp_port.diff Description: Command line tcp port argument. Status: Applied. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/patch19-7-2.xyPos.emptyPassword.patch Description: This patch adds: 1) Support for empty passwords 2) Support for asking for password interactively 3) Support for ++ geometry. Status: 1) and 2) can be solved by the -P parameter; patch not needed. Functionality for 3) is currently missing. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-1.0.0-19-7-1-mmihalik-3.diff Description: Defines DO_GLYPH() etc. Status: As far as I understand, this patch is applied. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-1.0.0-mmihalik-1.diff Description: Misc drawing changes. Status: As far as I understand, this patch is applied. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-1.0.0-pl19-7-2-mmihalik-1.diff Description: Some kind of new alternative keyboard mapping implementation. Status: Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-gmp.patch Description: Use GMP for RSA crypto. Status: Not needed since rdesktop now use OpenSSL for all of the crypto. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-new_kb.patch Description: Modifies one of the old keyboard mapping implementations in some way. Status: Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-openssl.patch Description: Support for linking rdesktop with OpenSSL. Status: Not needed anymore, rdesktop can optionally use system OpenSSL. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop.vncviewer_patch Description: Hack for making the old (broken) keyboard mapping implementation work with the VNC Xserver. Status: Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop_keymap.patch Description: Some kind of new alternative keyboard mapping implementation. Status: Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdp-srvr-19-6-6.diff Description: Basic RDP server. Status: Not applied. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/scroll-to-death-patch.txt Description: Fixes scroll-to-death problem in Excel and other applications. Status: Not needed; fixed in another way in recent versions of rdesktop. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/spark-manpage-patch-19.4 Description: Adds a manual page. Status: Not needed; rdesktop contains a manual page now. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/spark-manpage-patch-19.4-1 Description: Adds a manual page. Status: Not needed; rdesktop contains a manual page now. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/spark_xinerama-patch2 Description: Adds XINERAMA support to rdesktop. Status: Not applied yet. TBD. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/svenni_dis_wmkeybnds.patch Description: Commandline flag to disable keyboard grabbing. Status: Applied. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/svenni_disable_bs_in_x-tiny-patch Description: Disables backing store for TinyX. Status: As far as I understand, this patch is not need any longer. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_19-7-2.license.patch Description: TBD Status: Not yet examined. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_19-7-2.secure.patch Description: Fixes a problem during the connection to a French NT4 TSE (a French NT4 TSE doesn't use encryptation). Status: Applied. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_19-7-3_excel.patch Description: Makes matrixes appear better, such as those found in Excel/toad etc. Status: Applied. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_8bpp.patch Description: Support a 8bpp display (256 colours). Status: An enhanced version is included in rdesktop; this patch is not needed any more. URL: http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vpypatch.txt Description: Various changes for one of the old keyboard stuff. Status: Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.