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Black Cursors on Win7/2008 R2 Using rdesktop for Ubuntu 10.04

I recently setup a Win 2008 R2 VM and proceeded to remote connect to it from Ubuntu 10.04. Everything worked perfectly except the mouse cursors were black (and some were corrupt). Solution? Use a newer version of rdesktop that doesn't ship with Ubuntu. There is a handy PPA that can be added using the following command:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ricolai/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rdesktop

[UPDATE]
It appears ricolai may have removed the package from his PPA. To remedy the situation, I've uploaded the working binaries for x64. Sorry, I don't have the x86 any longer.

More information on the bug can be found here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rdesktop/+bug/385974?comments=all
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  1. RobertAugust 25, 2010 at 1:24 AM

    Thanks for updating mate. Not sure why ricolai would have done that.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 26, 2010 at 12:29 PM

    This worked great, thank you.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2010 at 12:25 PM

    Good job. The distros need to get their act together and follow suit.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 24, 2010 at 3:50 PM

    Hi, Folks,

    use ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/testbildtest instead of ppa:ricolai/ppa.

    It's almost the same package. Made for lucid and maverick.

    It will stay for a while;-)

    Bye

    https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/testbildtest

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  5. OttoSeptember 24, 2010 at 10:30 PM

    ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/testbildtest has builds for i386 and amd64 architectures

    bye

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  6. UnknownNovember 11, 2010 at 6:30 PM

    Can anyone post information on getting the source code? I don't know where the repositories are but know how to use configure and "make install". I don't like the idea of using binaries from lots of unofficial repositories.

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  7. Florian LöfflerNovember 26, 2010 at 6:12 AM

    Hi and thanks very much!
    I downloaded the deb Packages from the Link you specified (http://www.4shared.com/file/ekLef5bm/rdesktop_160tar.html) and installed it on Ubuntu 10.04

    Now the cursor is working fine with Windows Server 2008.

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2011 at 4:57 AM

    Hi I am sure that this 2ubuntu3ppa1 woring fine, but is there any one who knows how to put the right pagages in to thinstation?

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  9. AnonymousApril 10, 2011 at 5:58 PM

    It seems the link is now dead :(
    Any chance it could be re-uploaded somewhere?

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  10. Kurt KeyserApril 11, 2011 at 4:55 PM

    I had to recover the package used to install on my 64bit system (sorry, no x86 binary).

    I've uploaded the file to a dropbox account:
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7351644/linux/rdesktop_1.6.0-2ubuntu3ppa1%7Esvn1593_amd64.deb

    Please redistribute elsewhere as well and post the link here!

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  11. Johan SvenssonMay 26, 2011 at 1:15 AM

    I cannot download the file from dropbox. Http request timeout. However, thanks alot to Anonymous who suggested the alternative ppa. Works flawlessly.

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  12. AnonymousAugust 29, 2011 at 3:21 AM

    I used the PPA provided by Anonymous. Thanks man! It works!

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  13. AnonymousNovember 14, 2011 at 5:03 AM

    I've been dealing with this issue for a few years. Thanks so much for posting up this solution. I had no idea how to fix this and had given up several years ago. Cheers to you!

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  14. rufex2001September 19, 2012 at 9:59 AM

    I'm currently working with a x86 machine, so this solution was not fruitful. I and got it fixed on Ubuntu 10.04 by following the instructions from this site:

    http://www.cac.cornell.edu/slantz/CATS/rdesktopbug.html

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