[kwlug-disc] Tip about RDP server on Ubuntu 18

[Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account)]

> On Mar 4, 2021, at 9:38 AM, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
> xrdp is easy to install on ubuntu. Follow instruction, and you'll get blank screens that follow with messages mentioning sessions.
> 
> Description and fix is here: https://catch22cats.blogspot.com/2018/05/xrdp-blank-screen-with-ubuntu-1804.html
> 
> I'll just clarify, add lines at the top of that standard script.

I use xrdp exclusively for my remote access to Linux GUIs. Way better than VNC. One more tip I’d like to offer is one that I always have to look up. Basically you end up with a black box around the mouse cursor. This is fixed by adding

new_cursors=false

to /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini

Now that isn’t the fix I tend to use; When I was figuring this out I found that adding

Xcursor.core: 1

to ~/.Xresources fixed it. My notes on my (mis)adventures with XRDP are at https://www.mixdown.ca/redmine/projects/mixdown/wiki/Black_box_around_cursor_with_XRDP <https://www.mixdown.ca/redmine/projects/mixdown/wiki/Black_box_around_cursor_with_XRDP> and https://www.mixdown.ca/redmine/projects/mixdown/wiki/XRDP <https://www.mixdown.ca/redmine/projects/mixdown/wiki/XRDP>.

Note that I think this cursor issue has been fixed in the current versions of xrdp because they added XCursors support (as of 1.9.0 I think): https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/commit/6dd85edc6f8293acd100b34add1405ea5a744111 <https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/commit/6dd85edc6f8293acd100b34add1405ea5a744111>

-A.

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