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xrdp
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neutrinolabs / xrdp
xrdp
xrdp: an open source RDP server
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7 sourcesTry xrdp and xorgxrdp (with --enable_glamor) for gpu acceleration of x-windows in containers. I have successfully tried it on integrated intel and radeon GPUs with opensource drivers.
https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/1029
In ContainerSSH: Launch containers on demandYes (specifically, the original distribution (https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp) and the one provided in the repository of my o/s), and it fell flat on the usability side - gave me a blank screen after logging in. Gave up after an hour or two of attempts. X2Go worked straight out of the box, but it's very slow (on a 10 Mbit home wifi connection).
In How to Use Your Android Tablet as a Second MonitorTried to use xrdp on couple clients' machines and gave up at the end after 2 months (Ubuntu was used as host and client). Always had problems starting with keyboard layouts, xdisplays, remmina client, and ending with black screens (https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/1358). Also, it requires a very good connection, if you have sometimes a long ping - your clients would be randomly frozen. The solution only restart sessions on host. Very unstable not only xrdp itself, but xorg, vnc, xdisplays, etc within protocol implementation, at least for Ubuntu.
Even having working it was much slower than on windows stack within same datacenter.
I've recently heard good words about x2go. I didn't know about it earlier. Maybe it could save someone brain cells :)
For myself I decided do not use the RDP protocol on linux clients' machines.
In Xrdp: An open source RDP serverXrdp: An open source RDP server
194 points · Open discussionThere have been a number of attempts. The closest is http://www.xrdp.org (https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp), which does basic session management against a backing Xrdp or Xvnc server, proxying either to RDP.
I haven't used it in a while (~6m), but to get the most of it you really had to compile from source and understand how to manage the various daemons (xrdp.ini is a mess, and configuring some things was rather counter-intuitive). Otherwise you wouldn't have resizable desktops (as in xrandr, not rescaling) and other niceties.
Not sure about audio, now that I think about it, but the gist of things is that so far no mainstream distribution got xrdp right or usable out of the box (unless we're talking about the niche LTSP-related stuff).
In Apache Guacamole