As per bug 220005 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xrdp/+bug/220005
xrdp doesn't work. It used to build X11rdp by patching Xorg to write to an RDP session, but this no longer builds and doesn't get installed. Fundamentally, xrdp-sesman runs a command with some arguments. It has a configuration section in /etc/xrdp/sesman.ini like so: [X11rdp] param1=-bs param2=-ac param3=-nolisten param4=tcp Thus any X11 service can stand in. Weston typically comes with weston-rdp, although this isn't built in Ubuntu. This is an RDP compositor, and listens on a port for an RDP connection. Stacking Wayland-X on top of this would immediately give an xrdp replacement. As a possible forward direction, Ubuntu could: - Provide weston-rdp; - Provide an X11rdp which runs weston-rdp to host Wayland-X; - promote the necessary pieces to main; - provide a default configuration which listens on 3389 (RDP) and automatically starts an X11rdp session with a Display Manager (lightdm, gdm, etc.). This would allow a user to install xrdp and immediately have a system which gives a login screen on the RDP port. No VNC, no logging in with xrdp's ugly session manager; instead we would get the same functionality as Windows servers, using the same protocol. Even servers without a console display manager could allow login through RDP in this way. Obviously, this doesn't immediately provide advanced options like disconnecting from the RDP session and leaving it running, reconnecting to the same session (by logging in as the same user), sharing the session, or accessing the existing console session. I believe all of the pieces to provide basic remote RDP access are there, however; advanced functionality will require more code. Thoughts?
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