Arch Linux

I can confirm this. Should we file a bug upstream to support freerdp 1.0.2?

I just did: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341284

In the meantime I've decided to roll my own zsh script that translates old into new options (limited to the options I regularly use, mind you). Here it is in case it helps someone. Put it into a directory in $PATH that is located before /usr/bin and call it »xfreerdp« so that the script gets executed by krdc and not the original /usr/bin/xfreerdp.

--snip------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/zsh

# -g 1800x1000 -k 0x00000409 -u mosu -p EvilPassword -D -X 104857884 -a 24 -x l --ignore-certificate --plugin cliprdr -t 3389 ketani

typeset -a args

function error {
kdialog --error "${(pj: :)@}; arguments so far: ${(pj: :)args}"
exit 2
}

host=
port=3389
while [[ -n $1 ]]; do
case $1 in
-g) args+=(/size:$2) ; shift ;;
-k) args+=(/kbd:$2) ; shift ;;
-u) args+=(/u:$2) ; shift ;;
-d) args+=(/d:$2) ; shift ;;
-p) args+=(/p:$2) ; shift ;;
-a) args+=(/bpp:$2) ; shift ;;
-t) port=$2 ; shift ;;
-D) ;;
-X) args+=(/parent-window:$2) ; shift ;;
--ignore-certificate) args+=(/cert-ignore) ;;
-x)
case $2 in
m) args+=(-fonts -aero -themes -wallpaper) ;;
b) args+=(+fonts -aero -themes -wallpaper) ;;
l) args+=(+fonts +aero -themes +wallpaper) ;;
*) error "Unknown experience option $2; remaining args:" $@ ;;
esac
shift
;;
--plugin)
case $2 in
cliprdr) args+=(+clipboard) ;;
*) error "Unknown plugin option $2; remaining args:" $@ ;;
esac
shift
;;
*)
if [[ -z $host ]]; then
host=$1
else
error "Host already set; unknown option? host=$host; remaining args:" $@
fi
;;
esac
shift
done

args+=(/v:${host}:${port})

exec /usr/bin/xfreerdp $args
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I've set up a PKGBUILD that uses the patch from https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115059/ that will fix the issue. http://pastebin.com/dbzkfSCL

And, I just realized you can make it a little easier by replacing 'rb115059.patch' in the sources array with 'rb115059.patch::https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115059/diff/raw/'.

As the maintainer of KRDC (and also a happy Arch Linux user), I'm curious about the reasons for switching to a beta release of Freerdp.

As a short term solution, I support the suggested change by Jameson Pugh.

Any chance of including the patch in the official KRDC Arch build?
From a user perspective installing an application with its dependencies should provide a working piece of software which is not the case in the current scenario.
The user is "forced" to update to a beta build of freerdp through the normal upgrade procedure which makes KRDC not working for RDP connections anymore.
Not including the patch not seems like "keep it simple" :P
Or make the maintainer of freerdp go back to the stable release ... ;)

As a temporary workaround, you can downgrade freerdp to freerdp-1.0.2-7-i686.pkg.tar.xz / freerdp-1.0.2-7-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (you can find these files with google if you do not have them anymore in /var/cache/pacman/pkg).

@Sergej Pupykin (sergej): Do you plan to change anything related to this issue? I get almost daily reports from archlinux users complaining that KRDC RDP support does not work anymore.

@Urs Wolfer, I think the best solution is provide patched version of krdc in Arch. But I have no access to [extra] repository. I'll try to ask someone to do it. Or I'll add wrapper for freerdp binary as suggested here. Hopefully it will be done during next week.

@Sergej Pupykin: Patching KRDC would be the best solution IMHO. I don't know if the wrapper script is complete for every possible command KRDC requires. What's the reason for upgrading freerdp to a beta version? Is downgrading to the last stable release not a solution for you?

Oh, and why isn't freerdp in [extra]? It's a (optional) dependency for KRDC which probably is installed by almost every KRDC user.

The wrapper script I've posted does definitely not cover all possible switches, just the ones that I use regularly (most notably shared folders aren't supported). I've also added support for some more switches, but even then it's not complete.

It also uses zsh, and I don't think you want to force zsh as a dependency on everyone using krdc.

It was just meant as a quick band-aid for others who don't want to downgrade arbitrarily.

I believe that using one of the patches suggested in the KDE bug tracker is the right thing to do here; they do look complete, and all technical objections so far revolve around krdc needing to support both old and new-style interfaces in general – but that's not a problem for us on Arch as we only need the new one.

KRDC Git master and Applications/14.12 contain fixes for freerdp 1.2 support.

Do you also need these fixes in KDE/4.14 branch?

kdenetwork-krdc is orphaned and I have no permissions to fix it, so I've added maintainer from PKGBUILD and last packager to assignee list.

Should be fixed with 4.14.3-2.

To @BaSh: blue screen with freerdp-1.1.0_beta+2013071101-1 and 1.2.0_beta1+android9-1

EDIT: Please ignore this comment.

@imraro: The patched version of kdenetwork-krdc looks good to me. Your bluescreen problem is probably caused by another issues (probably rdp host down - which is fixed by another KRDC patch). Please try to connect to this host with xfreerdp only.

@BaSh: Thanks for applying the patch.