Ubuntu – Remmina rdp session – no toolbar and keyboard shortcuts don’t work

If Control+Alt+F1 works you can use it to drop to a hard terminal. From there you can:

• Try killing the application. I use htop to find and nuke something (sudo apt-get install htop) but you can also just use commands like kill and pkill if you're happy with them. I prefer htop because it lets me see what is schizing out.

  It's then Control+Alt+F7 (sometimes F8 or F9) to return to your X session.

• If that doesn't work (X is still locked up) or the X server is somehow damaged (tons of artefacts, wrong resolution, etc), and I don't have any unsaved work, I'd try restarting gdm (the beast that launches X and manages logins etc).

  sudo restart gdm
  

  That should automatically pull you back into X but all your applications die with X so that's why I say this is really for when you've got nothing open that you should have saved.

If you can't get to a TTY, or SSH in from another system (if you're running a SSH server and have another computer or phone with SSH client) and can't do the above, you might have to try the magic restart keyboard combination. It's somewhat safer than pulling the plug.

Hold Alt + PrintScr/SysRq and then slowly type: r e i s u b

A handy mnemonic for remembering this is: Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken

If that doesn't work, go postal on the power button.

I run the following script to log in to a remote server through RD-gateway, current freerdp git-master works rather well.

#!/bin/bash
# Get the password once since the same password are used for RD-gateway and remote server
PW=$(zenity --password)

# RDP to remote server remote1.server.com through RD-gateway rdg.server.com
xfreerdp /g:rdg.server.com /gu:mysuername /gd:MYDOMAIN /gp:$PW /v:remote1.server.com +compression /u:myusername /p:$PW /d:MYDOMAIN +clipboard /size:1548x846 /network:broadband /bpp:32 /cert-ignore

Information on compiling FreeRDP can be found here: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/Compilation