Does an RDP client library under Linux exist?

Question

Are there any libraries for connecting as a client via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in Linux? The language used is secondary to the issue of existence. Any mainstream lan

Answer 1

You could embed rdesktop in a window of your own per J-16 SDIZ's suggestion and then send X.org events to that window programmatically. A similar route would be to install a VNC server on the Windows machine and run a VNC client on the Linux machine. That way you can also programmatically send X.org events to the VNC client.

This is what browsershots.org uses to programmatically control various web browsers in a cross-platform way through Python. Have a look at the gui directory if the browsershots.org client source code