Fedora 28: Connect to LXDE desktop environment via XRDP

This article will describe installing LXDE desktop environment and XRDP, and connecting to LXDE desktop environment via XRDP.

1 Install LXDE desktop environment

Install LXDE desktop environment with this.

Install XRDP.

$ sudo dnf install -y xrdp
$ sudo systemctl enable xrdp
$ sudo systemctl start xrdp

Create .Xclients in home directory of user to be connected.

$ echo "lxsession -s LXDE -e LXDE" > ~/.Xclients
$ chmod a+x ~/.Xclients

Use Xvnc as a session type. Windows Remote Desktop Connection is as the following.

There is no problem when using Windows Remote Desktop Connection or Remmina.

But rdesktop has a problem. If using rdesktop with enabling clipboard, nautilus on XRDP server will be hang (CPU usage will be high).

So if using rdesktop, please disable clipboard with "-r clipboard:off".

$ rdesktop -r clipboard:off XRDPSERVER