FreeRDP/FreeRDP — Issue #357: --gdi sw causes weird display/rendering issues in an application
Author: jawa-the-hutt
Created: 2012-01-17 21:28:29+00:00
State: open

Not sure how else to phrase that.

I've taken a series of screenshots that are accessible here: http://imgur.com/a/403aJ

I believe the root of the problem lies in the client rendering things correctly because screenshots taken within the RDP enviornment display just fine. I'm using a t5565 Thin Client running ThinPro 3.3 with 1.0.0 compiled and running directly on the client. The t5565 runs a via video chipset.

The first is how the desktop looks without using the --gdi sw command line option. Minus the colors being all inverted, the application issue described below doesn't manifest itself with the Tabs or Grid Lines.

The second is how the desktop looks with using the --gdi sw command line option. It looks normal, and all but one program, that I can tell, display normally.

The rest are of one application that is having issues displaying correctly:
In the third screenshot, notice the tab menu at the top. Between the tabs, it should be a thin black line, but instead, whatever the background color is, this is the color.
In the fourth screenshot, notice that I've clicked on three different tabs and the color has changed to a yellow color.
In the fifth screenshot, the tabs are manifesting yet another issue.
In the sixth screenshot, there should be grid lines.
In the seventh screenshot, I clicked and drug the window just slightly to one side and grid lines now display..