xRDP with Xfce

[ToddAndMargo]

On 4/1/25 9:51 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Fedora 41
>> Xfce 4.18
>> xrdp-0.10.2-11.fc41.x86_64
>> tigervnc-server-1.15.0-2.fc41.x86_64
>>
>> Anyone know how to configure xRDP to work with Xfce?
>>
>> I get the VNC login and then I get dumped out after
> 
> Why do you use VNC and xrdp at the same time?
> 
> I'm using xrdp on Debian with Xfce and Remmina as client
> and this works fine. I don't think I have configured anything
> explicitly to get it running.
> 
> 
>> $ cat /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh
>> # test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession
>> # exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession
>> exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session
> 
> My startwm.sh looks like this one:
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian-remote-team/xrdp/-/blob/master/debian/startwm.sh
> 
> xrdp can be configured to be quite verbose in its logfile/syslog, maybe
> you could try enable more verbose log levels and then check the logs.
> 
> Regards,
> Enrico


Figured it out:

missing from my directions was "xorgxrdp":
      # dnf -y install xrdp xorgxrdp

and
      # systemctl enable xrdp.service
      # systemctl start xrdp.service
      # systemctl enable xrdp-sesman.service
      # systemctl start xrdp-sesman.service

Also, from your link (the exec `/bin/sh`):

     # cat /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh

     # test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession
     # exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession
     # exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session
     exec /bin/sh /usr/bin/startxfce4
     # exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession

Thank you for the help!