<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 4, 2021, at 9:38 AM, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" class="">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class="">xrdp is easy to install on ubuntu. Follow instruction, and you'll get blank screens that follow with messages mentioning sessions.<br class=""><br class="">Description and fix is here: <a href="https://catch22cats.blogspot.com/2018/05/xrdp-blank-screen-with-ubuntu-1804.html" class="">https://catch22cats.blogspot.com/2018/05/xrdp-blank-screen-with-ubuntu-1804.html</a><br class=""><br class="">I'll just clarify, add lines at the top of that standard script.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">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</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">new_cursors=false</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">to /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now that isn’t the fix I tend to use; When I was figuring this out I found that adding</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Xcursor.core: 1</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">to ~/.Xresources fixed it. My notes on my (mis)adventures with XRDP are at <a href="https://www.mixdown.ca/redmine/projects/mixdown/wiki/Black_box_around_cursor_with_XRDP" class="">https://www.mixdown.ca/redmine/projects/mixdown/wiki/Black_box_around_cursor_with_XRDP</a> and <a href="https://www.mixdown.ca/redmine/projects/mixdown/wiki/XRDP" class="">https://www.mixdown.ca/redmine/projects/mixdown/wiki/XRDP</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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): <a href="https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/commit/6dd85edc6f8293acd100b34add1405ea5a744111" class="">https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/commit/6dd85edc6f8293acd100b34add1405ea5a744111</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-A.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>