reactos/base/applications/tsclient/rdesktop/doc/patches.txt

   1 This file documents some of all patches for rdesktop, floating around
   2 the net, and how they are related to the current (CVS) version of
   3 rdesktop. Things left to do are marked with TBD (To Be Done).
   4
   5
   6 URL:
   7 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/Makefile.diff
   8 Description:
   9 Makefile changes which makes it possible to compile rdesktop on SunOS
  10 and OSF1.
  11 Status:
  12 Applied (slightly modified)
  13
  14
  15 URL:
  16 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/assar_19-7-2.hostlen.patch
  17 Description:
  18 Fix for hostnames longer than 30 chars.
  19 Status:
  20 Applied (revision 1.11 of secure.c)
  21
  22
  23 URL:
  24 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/backingstore+privatecolormap-for-19-3-9.patch
  25 Description:
  26 This adds support for 1) Private color maps (useful for 8 bpp mode)
  27 and 2) backingstore selection.
  28 Status:
  29 1) is not needed anymore; rdesktop automatically uses Private color
  30 map in 8 bpp mode. 2) is, as far as I understand, also not
  31 need. rdesktop automatically uses a software backing store if the
  32 Xserver does not provide one.
  33
  34
  35 URL:
  36 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/ben_xwin.c.diff
  37 Description:
  38 Fixes for CapsLock and NumLock.
  39 Status:
  40 Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
  41
  42
  43 URL:
  44 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/ctrl1nohang.diff
  45 Description:
  46 Fixes problem with ctrl1 hangs.
  47 Status:
  48 Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
  49
  50
  51 URL:
  52 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/downkeypatch.diff
  53 Description:
  54 Seems to keep track of the remote modifier status.
  55 Status:
  56 Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
  57
  58
  59 URL:
  60 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/fasttext2+nobackpixmap.patch
  61 Description:
  62 (From http://mail.rdesktop.org/archive/2001/msg00218.html):
  63
  64 1) Added --no-backpixmap option to disable the ugly double drawing in
  65 xwin.c (I have a very robust backing storage in my X, so I don't need
  66 it ;)
  67
  68 2) More optimizations to text draw (previous fast-text patch was
  69 included in 192-3-6-2). In text drawing with solid background the
  70 glyphs are drawn with stippled fill instead of XCopyPlane (runs faster
  71 on my S3Trio64 with XFree 3.3.6, please test it on other
  72 configurations to validate this). The WinTach not show any improvement
  73 with this change, it seems to use all transparent background text
  74 draws, but with a old PC Magazine Winbench (3.1) doing the scroll text
  75 test the speed gain is significative.
  76
  77 3) My Previous patch to disable backing storage in fullscreen
  78
  79 Status:
  80 1) is not relevant any more, since rdesktop only uses backing store if
  81 the Xserver does not provide backing store.
  82 Need to examine if 2) and 3) are still useful. TBD.
  83
  84
  85 URL:
  86 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/francisco_fix_patblt.html
  87 Description:
  88 The colors in patterns drawn with "pattern blt" order was inverted (fg
  89 & bg). (See the background of the yellow help banners)
  90 Status:
  91 Applied (in revision 1.29, 2002/07/14)
  92
  93
  94 URL:
  95 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/frank_1linerfix.html
  96 Description:
  97 ui_create_glyph was not called with ipattern.
  98 Status:
  99 Applied (in revision 1.29, 2002/07/14).
 100
 101
 102 URL:
 103 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/frank_fasttext.patch.txt
 104 Description:
 105 Some kind of performence improvements.
 106 Status:
 107 From what I can tell, this patch is no longer necessary.
 108
 109
 110 URL:
 111 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/hostname-patch
 112 Description:
 113 (From http://mail.rdesktop.org/archive/2001/msg00163.html):
 114
 115 rdesktop uses gethostname to figure out the hostname, but gethostname
 116 under linux returns an error when the hostname is longer than the
 117 buffer.  This hack gives gethostname a 64 char buffer and then strips
 118 the first 16 chars or upto the first '.' and puts the result in
 119 hostname[16].
 120
 121 Status:
 122 Applied in version 1.10 of rdesktop.c.
 123
 124
 125 URL:
 126 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/hove-19-7-2endian.diff
 127 Description:
 128 Includes a program for testing endianness.
 129 Status:
 130 rdesktop determines endianness at runtime. This patch is not needed
 131 anymore.
 132
 133
 134 URL:
 135 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/mmihalik_19-7-3-keyfix-4.patch
 136 Description:
 137 Some kind of new alternative keyboard mapping imlementation.
 138 Status:
 139 Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
 140
 141
 142 URL:
 143 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/norbert_fullscreen.patch
 144 Description:
 145 Fullscreen mode.
 146 Status:
 147 Applied.
 148
 149
 150 URL:
 151 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/norbert_percent.txt
 152 Description:
 153 Makes is possible to specify RDP geometry based a percent value of the
 154 current desktop size.
 155 Status:
 156 Not applied. I don't think many people will need this.
 157
 158
 159 URL:
 160 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/norbert_rdp_tcp_port.diff
 161 Description:
 162 Command line tcp port argument.
 163 Status:
 164 Applied.
 165
 166
 167 URL:
 168 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/patch19-7-2.xyPos.emptyPassword.patch
 169 Description:
 170 This patch adds:
 171 1) Support for empty passwords
 172 2) Support for asking for password interactively
 173 3) Support for +<xoff>+<yoff> geometry.
 174
 175 Status:
 176 1) and 2) can be solved by the -P parameter; patch not needed.
 177 Functionality for 3) is currently missing.
 178
 179
 180 URL:
 181 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-1.0.0-19-7-1-mmihalik-3.diff
 182 Description:
 183 Defines DO_GLYPH() etc.
 184 Status:
 185 As far as I understand, this patch is applied.
 186
 187
 188 URL:
 189 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-1.0.0-mmihalik-1.diff
 190 Description:
 191 Misc drawing changes.
 192 Status:
 193 As far as I understand, this patch is applied.
 194
 195
 196 URL:
 197 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-1.0.0-pl19-7-2-mmihalik-1.diff
 198 Description:
 199 Some kind of new alternative keyboard mapping implementation.
 200 Status:
 201 Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
 202
 203
 204 URL:
 205 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-gmp.patch
 206 Description:
 207 Use GMP for RSA crypto.
 208 Status:
 209 Not needed since rdesktop now use OpenSSL for all of the crypto.
 210
 211
 212 URL:
 213 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-new_kb.patch
 214 Description:
 215 Modifies one of the old keyboard mapping implementations in some way.
 216 Status:
 217 Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
 218
 219
 220 URL:
 221 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop-openssl.patch
 222 Description:
 223 Support for linking rdesktop with OpenSSL.
 224 Status:
 225 Not needed anymore, rdesktop can optionally use system
 226 OpenSSL.
 227
 228
 229 URL:
 230 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop.vncviewer_patch
 231 Description:
 232 Hack for making the old (broken) keyboard mapping implementation work
 233 with the VNC Xserver.
 234 Status:
 235 Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
 236
 237
 238 URL:
 239 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdesktop_keymap.patch
 240 Description:
 241 Some kind of new alternative keyboard mapping implementation.
 242 Status:
 243 Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.
 244
 245
 246 URL:
 247 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/rdp-srvr-19-6-6.diff
 248 Description:
 249 Basic RDP server.
 250 Status:
 251 Not applied.
 252
 253
 254 URL:
 255 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/scroll-to-death-patch.txt
 256 Description:
 257 Fixes scroll-to-death problem in Excel and other applications.
 258 Status:
 259 Not needed; fixed in another way in recent versions of rdesktop.
 260
 261
 262 URL:
 263 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/spark-manpage-patch-19.4
 264 Description:
 265 Adds a manual page.
 266 Status:
 267 Not needed; rdesktop contains a manual page now.
 268
 269
 270 URL:
 271 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/spark-manpage-patch-19.4-1
 272 Description:
 273 Adds a manual page.
 274 Status:
 275 Not needed; rdesktop contains a manual page now.
 276
 277
 278 URL:
 279 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/spark_xinerama-patch2
 280 Description:
 281 Adds XINERAMA support to rdesktop.
 282 Status:
 283 Not applied yet. TBD.
 284
 285
 286 URL:
 287 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/svenni_dis_wmkeybnds.patch
 288 Description:
 289 Commandline flag to disable keyboard grabbing.
 290 Status:
 291 Applied.
 292
 293
 294 URL:
 295 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/svenni_disable_bs_in_x-tiny-patch
 296 Description:
 297 Disables backing store for TinyX.
 298 Status:
 299 As far as I understand, this patch is not need any longer.
 300
 301
 302 URL:
 303 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_19-7-2.license.patch
 304 Description:
 305 TBD
 306 Status:
 307 Not yet examined.
 308
 309
 310 URL:
 311 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_19-7-2.secure.patch
 312 Description:
 313 Fixes a problem during the connection to a French NT4 TSE (a French
 314 NT4 TSE doesn't use encryptation).
 315 Status:
 316 Applied.
 317
 318
 319 URL:
 320 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_19-7-3_excel.patch
 321 Description:
 322 Makes matrixes appear better, such as those found in Excel/toad etc.
 323 Status:
 324 Applied.
 325
 326
 327 URL:
 328 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vincent_8bpp.patch
 329 Description:
 330 Support a 8bpp display (256 colours).
 331 Status:
 332 An enhanced version is included in rdesktop; this patch is not needed any more.
 333
 334
 335 URL:
 336 http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/patch19/patches/vpypatch.txt
 337 Description:
 338 Various changes for one of the old keyboard stuff.
 339 Status:
 340 Not needed anymore, with the new keyboard mapping implementation.