How to use XFCE with XRDP in Leap 15.3?

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#1

Hi

I upgraded to Leap 15.3 and now my remote desktop session uses Icewm instead of XFCE. When I login locally I get XFCE desktop as expected but not when I use XRDP. I have tried updating the alternatives and it shows XFCE as the selected Windows Manager. I tried changing the startwm.sh as shown below but it will not login after the change. Any suggestions about how this is to be fixed?


    elif  -r /usr/bin/icewm-session ]
       /usr/bin/icewm-session
    fi
    ;;



    elif  -r /usr/bin/xfce4-session ]
       /usr/bin/xfce4-session
    fi
    ;;

Thanks,
Simon

#2

As you have spotted XRDP runs /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh to start it’s window manager.

I have come across several versions of this file and they do very different things depending on where it originated. I run a custom version so what I have on my main system is a bit useless.

The guts of the code in the file that I have in my vanilla Leap15.3 is:


SESSION="plasma" 
 
  case $SESSION in
    lxde)
      /usr/bin/startlxde
      ;;
    sle)
      if  -r /usr/bin/gnome-session ]; then
        export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
        export GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=sle-classic
        /usr/bin/gnome-session --session gnome-classic
      elif  -r /usr/bin/icewm-session ]; then
        /usr/bin/icewm-session
      fi
      ;;
    gnome)
      if  -r /usr/bin/gnome-session ]; then   
        export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
        /usr/bin/gnome-session
      elif  -r /usr/bin/icewm-session ]; then
        /usr/bin/icewm-session
      fi 
      ;;
    plasma)
      if  -r /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 ]; then
        export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
        /usr/bin/startplasma-x11   
      elif  -r /usr/bin/icewm-session ]; then
        /usr/bin/icewm-session
      fi
      ;;
    icewm)
      if  -r /usr/bin/icewm-session ]; then
        /usr/bin/icewm-session
      fi
      ;;
  esac

as such I would change the first line to:


SESSION="xfce"

and add the lines at the top of the case statement:


    xfce)
      /usr/bin/xfce4-session
      ;;

Try that and see what happens. Have bot checked it myself but I think you get the idea of what I am trying to do.

#3

When I add the xfce option then I get an error saying:

VNC start connecting
Waiting 2000 ms for VNC to start…
VNC connecting to 127.0.0.0 6100
VNC error - problem connecting
some problem

Simon

#4

Hi

I cannot say what changed but all of a sudden I can connect using XRDP and I have the XFCE desktop.

Simon

#5

Good work :slight_smile: