Re: xRDP with Xfce

Silvio Knizek <[email protected]> Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:33:37 +0200

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Am Montag, dem 31.03.2025 um 03:32 -0700 schrieb ToddAndMargo:

> Hi All,
> 
> 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
> entering the user name and password
> 
> Many thanks,
> -T
> ```
> $ 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
> ```

Hi Todd,

to work properly with the session management on modern Linux systems (and SELinux on Fedora espacially), my suggestion would be to configure lightdm with the VNC backend.

Then your problem would be visable in the lightdm logs.

For everything else more logs would be required.

BR  
Silvio