The quick solution is to install xfce4 package
Installing the xfce4 Desktop environment
In the Terminal console; type the following commandsudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xfce4
Configure xrdp to use xfce desktop environment
At this stage, you have to configure your Ubuntu machine in order for xrdp to know that the xfce desktop
will be used instead of the Unity or Gnome (which are not working
anymore in Ubuntu). To configure this, from the terminal console, you
will issue the following command
echo xfce4-session >~/.xsession
Restart the xrdp service by issuing the following command
sudo service xrdp restart
Test your xrdp connection
At this stage, you should have a basic
xrdp working solution. When I say basic, I mean that you can indeed
connect to your remote Ubuntu machine but if you disconnect your session
and try to connect again, you will each time open a new session. (Read
below section in this post to see how you can reconnect to the same
session)
To test your xrdp solution, find the ip
address of your linux machine (or use the name if you have DNS
Infrastructure in place). To find the ip address, issue the command
hostname -I
Now go to your windows machine, start remote Desktop client and enter the ip address/name of your ubuntu machine
You should see then the login screen of
xrdp presented to you. Note that, at this screen (and because we have
not configured keyboard layout yet), the keyboard layout is set to English by default.
Enter your username and password and Press OK
You will see a dialog box showing the login process
Reference article: http://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=5305
1 Comments:
This actually fixed it for me; many thx for posting
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