Blank screen when connecting via Remote Desktop to Xubuntu 18.04 (hosted with Hyper-V)

Question

I installed Xubuntu 18.04 on Hyper-V.

When I want to ghost machine with Remote Desktop, it shows a blank screen.

I configured XRDP with several guides like:

https://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=11868

https://medium.com/@vivekteega/how-to-setup-an-xrdp-server-on-ubuntu-18-04-89f7e205bd4e

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/xrdp

Connect to Ubuntu 18.04 via RDP?

But none of them works.

What's the problem?

Solution 1

For Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic, this works:

sudo apt-get install xorgxrdp-hwe-18.04

This installs a compatible xrdp package

The old version is not compatible and if you have it installed you have to:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core
sudo apt-get -y install xserver-xorg-input-all

This removes the old stuff if you have it installed

DON'T USE THE SOLUTION BELOW!!!!

Also other answers on the internet suggest this solution that just adds another issue to your Ubuntu 18 install

Xrdp shows a blank screen with Ubuntu 18.04, Bionic Beaver

To solve this "second session" problem and allow as many sessions as you need, edit /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh and add these lines before the lines that test and execute Xsession. The $HOME/.profile is not part of the solution, but is something that should be run before starting the session anyway.

unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS  
unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

Solution 2

Just a guess

If you are running Xubuntu 18.04.2 or 18.04.3, you might be affected by a know issue with xRDP...

If you have installed xrdp package manually on your system from xubuntu repository, xorgxrdp package is not installed because package dependencies issues...

Try to install the new xorgxrdp-hwe-18.04 package and try again

to install the package, execute the following command

sudo apt-get install xorgxrdp-hwe-18.04

We assume that you have already installed xrdp package on your system...

Hope this help till next time See ya

Comments

[Gabriel Fair]

FYI: When installing xorgxrdp-hwe-18.04 on 18.04.05 it says: Depends: xorg-video-abi-24 and xserver-xorg-core-hwe-18.04 (>= 2:1.18.99.901)