Mouse movement is very jerky when using rdesktop

Mouse pointer movement is not smooth especially when using RDP to a remote Windows Vista or Windows 7. Disabling motion events notification using the -m switch helps but any mouse-over event won't also be triggered. It's a bit inconvenient but worth sacrificing for smooth mouse movement. However, with the -m switch, the mouse pointer will disappear. Apply the patch below to make the local cursor always appear and exclude the suppression of motion events when a mouse button is pressed (needed for drag & drop action).

• Download rdesktop 1.6.0 from http://www.rdesktop.org/ and extract the downloaded rdesktop-1.6.0.tar.gz file.
• Copy the patch code from http://www.zerties.org/index.php/RDesktop_no-motion_improvements and put it into a new text file 'rdp-patch' inside the rdesktop-1.6.0 folder extracted from above.
• To patch the code

patch -i rdp-path

• To compile,

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
./configure
sudo make install

• To run this patched rdesktop,

/usr/local/bin/rdesktop -m -d<domain> -u<user-name> server