Install Xrdp for VNC via Windows Remote Desktop

xrdp creates an RDP server on remote Linux PCs.

Setup RDP client

RDP client (on your laptop) is installed by:

• Windows: factory installed
• Mac: RDP client
• Linux: apt install xfreerdp
• BSD: pkg install xfreerdp

Setup Xrdp server

The remote PC has the Xrdp server.

1. install Xrdp and Openbox desktop

   apt install xrdp openbox
   

2. create ~/.xession containing

   exec openbox-session
   

3. enable xrdp with new config

   service xrdp restart
   

Notes

• Openbox will show a grey screen upon typing password at Xrdp login. Right-click mouse to open menu.
• If you just get a gray screen, try editing /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh to contain

  #!/bin/sh
  
  if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then
  . /etc/default/locale
  export LANG LANGUAGE
  fi
  
  exec openbox-session