I've been trying to get xrdp working on 18.04 for 2 days, and am about to throw in the towel. No matter what I do all I get is a green screen after trying to log into X11. If I wait long enough (10+ minutes) I get an error box that looks like this:
I have tried:
- installing just xrdp
- xrdp and xorgxrdp
- adding gnome-session to startwm.sh
- removing everything and using the Std-Xrdp-Install-0.2.sh script
- Making sure everything was up to date, including the distro
- Attempting connections from Windows 10, Windows 7, and Mac RDP
- Made sure that I am not logged into the desktop and it's not set to autologon
I'm just not sure what else to try. Most of the guides just say "install xrdp, and it works!" But it doesn't for me. This is a fresh install from ISO to bare metal. Not a VM.
Any other ideas would be appreciated.
13 Answers
Problem solved.. I ended up removing xorgxrdp and reinstalling it alone. I got an error about 2 package dependencies that I ended up manually installing. Once I did that, xorgxrdp installed fine and everything works perfectly.
1First, uninstall xorgxrdp if you haven't already. Then install the dependency using this command:
sudo apt-get install xorg-video-abi-23Then reinstall xorgxrdp and retry the connection. Seemed to work for me after hours of trying different methods.
I had exactly the same problem. Installing ssh server resolved this.
sudo apt-get install openssh-server(note: I also needed SSH, so I was fine adding this service)
