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

[Mikalai Birukou]

>> On Mar 4, 2021, at 9:38 AM, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc 
>> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org <mailto: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 and 
> 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

I haven't noticed problems with cursor. It could've been fixed.


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