RDP Client for Ubuntu with Proxy

I'm running a Ubuntu/Win7 Dual boot on my laptop and have a Win8.1 machine which I'd like to access via RDP from my Ubuntu system. I found a couple of RDP-Cliens which generally work well, but unfortunately I have to access the internet through the proxy of my college, which none of them apparently supports. I still have Remmina RDP installed. I set the proxy-settings (which also require authentication) in the bashrc as well as in the apt.conf. How can I get the current client working or is there one around which allows manual proxy configuration?!

3 Answers

Test this:

Open a terminal.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T

Run it:

$ remmina

Press the button to create a new desktop file.

Set up remmina so you can connect to through the GUI.

Save it.

Quit.

Look in your /home/user/.remmina/ directory to a xxxxxxx.remmina file.

Edit it:

 $ nano /home/user/.remmina/xxxxxxx.remmina

Add the following line:

http_proxy=

Ctrl + O, save file. Ctrl + X, close nano.

From the terminal, run it:

 $ remmina -c /home/user/.remmina/xxxxxxx.remmina

That should have brought up your desktop connection.

In newer versions of Remmina that file is in ~/.local/share/remmina/xxxxxxxx.remmina

For "one time" solution, you can also use:export https_proxy="socks5://host:port" && remmina

Some other options are mentioned in old issue related to proxy