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tsclient: on the road

March 27th, 2007 | gnome, ubuntu

tsclient (taken from about dialog): Terminal Server Client is a frontend for rdesktop, vncviewer, wfica and xnest.

With it you can connect into a windows (rdp) or *nix (vnc) machine in an easy way. There also is a panel applet, which lets you connect quickly (just one click is necessary) into pre-configured machines.

It is a great tool, mainly in a networked environment. Its interface is very similar to that found on windows operating system. This is particularly cool for window users, they don’t have to learn how to use a new, different program.

I just started helping on tsclient development. I hope to improve this software, which i use every day in my work.

It has now a page on Sourceforge, with svn and bug tracking. So, bug reports and patches are more than welcome!

8 comments ↓

#1 Steven Garrity on 03.27.07 at 11:05

John – If you need any help with icons or graphics in general for tsclient, drop us a note at the Tango project (http://www.tango-project.org/) – we\\\’d be glad to help.

#2 NX user on 03.27.07 at 12:06

Is it possible to build NX client support into tsclient? I believe there is a Free implementation of the client libs floating around somewhere. The official NX client is great, but not open.

#3 Stu Hood on 03.27.07 at 14:34

Thanks a lot for your efforts! tsclient is vital for my day to day work.

#4 ryan on 03.27.07 at 17:43

Thank you for working on this app, I too use it daily and I appreciate your efforts.

#5 Jones Lee on 04.18.07 at 5:28

John, give Tango Project guys a buzz if you need new gfx design. I would like to see a new GUI for the client that match the GNOME look-n-feel.

#6 SERGIO on 10.16.07 at 13:46

John, first of all, keep the good work, and thank you for your efforts. Just a simple question … is there some way to redirect local printers using TSClient ? I couldn´t find it … I think this feature will be very useful, because I´m working on replacing Windows terminals with Ubuntu, and the users are used to print on their local printer transparently. Now the only way I could do it is using RDesktop directly with the -r option, but loosing the GUI, and the error display in case of connection failure.

#7 Marcus Uy on 02.28.08 at 11:40

Hey, the homepage for the project is down, does this bode ill for the project as a whole? Is it still being actively developed?

Would be a pity to drop it short of doing the sound/disks/printer redirection work is complete.

#8 ronie m. guinhawa on 05.15.09 at 1:43

no map printer in terminal client ubuntu compare to remote desktop in windows xp there in a map sound printer and drive in remote desktop local resources

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