Problem with XRDP

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  1. Julian Harmer

    Julian Harmer Thread Starter
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    I've just downloaded Freya, and love it. I want to enable RDP to it, and have installed xrdp, but I have acouple of questions.

    What is the correct valut to put in the xsessions file.?

    I've read a bit about this, and it seems there are a few problems with it, a few people saying that it has issues. Is there a fix available?

    Thanks for your help in advance

    Julian
     
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    I too was having a problem with xRDP and Elementary OS 0.3.2. A work around I found was install xfce4 and point xRDP to use it in .xsession. Personally, I would prefer to use Pantheon because it looks nicer, but pointing it to gnome-session --session=pantheon created a grey screen with Xs and when I moved the mouse, ended the session.

    Here's what I did:
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install xfce4

    echo xfce4-session >~/.xsession
    sudo service xrdp restart

    Hopefully someone will chime in here to tell us how to get Pantheon to work.
     
  3. Julian Harmer

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    Thanks for that, much appreciated. I was looking at a remote workstation, and really liked the interface. So it's only ever going to run over RDP.
    Does anyone have any further suggestions?
    Thanks
     
  4. desperados

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    me too, same problem :(
    but installing and configuring xfce4 does not work, grey background with X cursor
     

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