Remmina connection problem
I tried today to connect to a Windows 7 computer using Remmina version 1.2.0 from my Kubuntu 18.04 and received this error message:
Telling that I requested an H264 GFX mode for the server … but that my library libfreerdp does not support H264.
After a bit of research I found that one solution is to use a different colour depth and then it would work again – unfortunately, it is not that easy to find that in the Quick connect settings or in the preference. The way to go is to click on the + on the top left. Yes, look carefully, there is a + in the upper left corner!!! Right next to the ‘RDP’ – Dropdown menu. To be fair, this ‘+’ might be easier to see in a different theme, but the Linux Mint default theme is apparently having an issue here…
![](https://i0.wp.com/danielfischer.name/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screenshot_20190226_141317.png?resize=640%2C402)
However, once we clicked on that we get the old dialogue like shown below and we can change the colour depth to True colour or something similar instead of GFX…
![](https://i0.wp.com/danielfischer.name/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screenshot_20190226_151554.png?resize=640%2C508)
After changing the colour depth, I could connect to my Windows 7 computer.