Problem with some menu in some apps running in RemoteApp mode

[thunderamur]

1. DESCRIPTION

Have some critical problem in RemoteApp mode. Don't work menu in some apps.
On YouTube you can see this problem in extremly popular commercial app for business in Russia - 1C. And problem in other commercial app - Megatec Master Agent.

http://youtu.be/cJAxr1edxR8

I understand that you would have some difficulties to find those apps and made video with Microsoft Office Word 2003

http://youtu.be/pqmVvfAheqk

1. COMMAND LINE

Remote Desktop (OK):
xfreerdp -u USER --ignore-certificate --plugin cliprdr IP

RemoteApp (Problem):
xfreerdp -u USER --ignore-certificate --plugin cliprdr --app --plugin rail --data "||WINWORD" -- IP

1. Windows Server 2008 R2
2. This is FreeRDP version 1.0.1
3. Ubuntu 13.04 (and 12.04) amd64

[thunderamur]

The numbering is buggy.

[VERn2009]

Hello,
In previous post was described issue with connect to Windows Server 2008R2 with using RemoteAPP technology

I have a problem with a xfreerdp aplication, I've run RemoteAPP aplication 1C 8.2 on OS Mint. Remote APP configre on Windows Server 2008R2
All work fine but, when I try to select any menu item or right click menu appears and disappears.

Thank your for answer!

[jbd1986]

I am also experiencing this issue. If you click any context menu / drop down menu (i.e. selecting a font or selecting font size in M$ Word, or simply right-clicking somewhere), the menu appears for a few milliseconds and then disappears.

[jbd1986]

here is some output with DEBUG_RAIL enabled:

http://pastie.org/9434688

Basically I allowed the terminal output to settle (which is where this output begins), then left clicked on the running freerdp window, then right clicked across the top of the window a few times.

[tachylatus]

I'm having this issue with freerdp-git 1.2.0.beta1.android7.r884.g6a282e0-1
Installed from AUR repositories, Arch Linux.

[tristan-k]

I'm having this issue on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It's extremly annoying. Any way to fix that.

[hardening]

@tristan-k, @tachylatus Some recent changes have been done on last master regarding remoteApp, could you give a try ? Thank you

[tristan-k]

Can you push the changes to the Remmina PPA for Ubuntu or provide a binary deb?

[hardening]

@tristan-k Remmina PPA for Ubuntu: no. binary deb: you may find nightly builds here: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/Prebuilds

[tristan-k]

Please see my comment here: #2662 (comment)

[ripkooo]

Problem is actual (in 2018.04.18 nightly and all previous versions)
is actual for the winworld, is actual for 1C Enterprise (any menu).
when I in any way call the context menu, if at the moment of its appearance I will not hover menu with the mouse, it disappears, while I see in the taskbar how the "unnamed window" appears and disappears. and if I will to point the mouse at it, the menu does not disappear, the new "unnamed window" appears in the taskbar, the menu items work, and when trying to enter the submenu, the situation repeats.

my config: Win2012(RDP-server)
ubuntu17.10, centos7, lastest nightly freerdp

/opt/freerdp-nightly/bin/xfreerdp /u:testuser /p:mypass /app:"||1cv8" /v:server1 /printer /drive:home,/home/user

[supertin]

I think I'm getting this in "Reckon Accounts 2018"... When I start entering a supplier in the "enter bills" section of Reckon, there's supposed to be a dropdown list of existing suppliers that match text being entered. Instead, I get an area that is transparent and shows the terminal behind the remoteapp window. Not an app killer because the first match is pre-filled in the still-visible text box anyway.

This transparent section makes me think this is either a bug in Windows or a poor design in Reckon causing the dropdown to be seen as a different program, and therefore not rendered as part of the remote app... Reckon appears to not use a standard Windows theme, so it could well be an entirely custom dropdown box.

I'm connected to a 2008R2 server and running the current Debian supplied version of FreeRDP (2.0.0-rc2 apparently).

Edit: Everything works as expected if I use a normal full desktop style RDP session.

[akallabeth]

@supertin Could you try if it works when adding /rfx /gfx:avc444 to your command line? There are some rare operations in legacy RDP that do not work 100% reliable, so maybe with modern drawing these are fixed for you.

[supertin]

That does solve the Reckon dropdown problem... Which is fantastic because it was the one concern I had for switching the entire business to Linux in the next few months 😄
Thanks for the tip.

[VasylHozda]

xfreerdp
the menu does not open when connected to remoteapp

This is FreeRDP version 2.0.0-dev

https://youtu.be/M2_FFe9MxUk