Ubuntu – ubuntu 14.04 xrdp grey

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I installed the latest ubuntu desktop and when I install xrdp I get a grey screen when I connect from windows rdc. this works fine in ubuntu 12.04.

I found several solutions but they are not really what I want. I would like for the ubuntu desktop to function with xrdp.

Any suggestions?

I have tried pretty much every post on xrdp "grey screen". I was able to get the xfe desktop to work but I really want the ubuntu desktop to work.

I did the following to install xrdp:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xrdp

Restarted the ubuntu 14.04 desktop machine.

RDC from windows results in a grey screen with an "x" cursor.

The process of doing the update and installing xrdp works fine for ubuntu 12.04 desktop and I can get into the desktops via windows RDC just fine. But 14.04 desktop gives a greay screen.

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Your steps are correct so far. The only thing that you should be aware of is that the xrdp solution is not working with the Unity Desktop Interface nor with the Gnome Desktop.

You can still perform a remote session to your ubuntu through xrdp but you will need to install an alternate desktop environment. The one that seems to be the most used (probably because working) is the xfce desktop.

You can find a step by step process on how to use xrdp with ubuntu 14.04 at this location http://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=5305

To summarize the steps, you install xrdp you install alternate desktop you configure your profile so xrdp know that it has to use the alternate desktop Test your configuration and possibly tweak the config as required

This should help you

By the way, you could also fill a bug report for that given that the xrdp solution is working fine on fedora (yes, you can use xrdp and Gnome interface) but it's seems that something is broken in Ubuntu and/or xrdp package

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I think that the xrdp.ini parameter that controls the listening interface IP is called 'address' not 'ip' i.e. in the globals section:

[globals]
address=127.0.0.1

At least, this works for me - however note that I am using a source-built xrdp from http://scarygliders.net/x11rdp-o-matic-central-downloads-page/ so I can't guarantee it is supported in the default packaged version.

The closure of the port can be confirmed by running netstat on the remote host, or using nmap i.e. before adding 'address=127.0.0.1' to the [globals] section:

$ sudo nmap -p 3389 192.168.1.16

Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-08-05 02:08 UTC
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.16
Host is up (0.0065s latency).
PORT     STATE SERVICE
3389/tcp open  ms-term-serv

After adding the 'address' parameter and restarting the service

$ sudo nmap -p 3389 192.168.1.16

Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-08-05 02:10 UTC
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.16
Host is up (0.030s latency).
PORT     STATE  SERVICE
3389/tcp closed ms-term-serv

Also note that at least in Windows 7, the native Remote Desktop Connection client appears to have trouble if the remote server is tunneled to localhost:3389 (the default xrdp port), I ended up setting my putty tunnel as

L33389    localhost:3389

and then specifying localhost:33389 in the Remote Desktop Connection dialog (although any suitably high numbered free port should work as well)

Ubuntu – Ubuntu 14 Server and Xrdp

Already answered here: 13.10 XRDP problem with gnome-fallback

As you know by now, the ability to fire up a gnome-session with xrdp broke with Ubuntu 14.

Bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1251281

Ubuntu 12 does not have this problem. This might be your solution. However it will be soon out of support so that is not an acceptable option for many.

XFCE4 + tightvncserver + xrdp is an option, but you said that is not acceptible. And you may run into problems with this too. See my post here: Ubuntu 14.x with xfce4-session desktop - Terminates abruptly

I have been hanging out in #ubuntu freenode IRC chatroom looking to see if anyone has an ETA on fixing gnome + xrdp. Nothing yet.

I would suggest trying another well supported Linux distro such as CentOS6 that does not have this issue.

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