Does the -g option work for rdesktop?(eg [1]) Failing that, I used to run a vnc server on the windows machine, and used Presence VNC [2] to remote in. It worked really well for me. [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/7138/...using-rdesktop [2] http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/presencevnc/