Have a NUC that Arch is installed on. I'd like to put that one in another room, with no monitor but with keyboard and mouse. There is tons of applications i can use, but i want a responsive system [Xfce] on the remote [on my LAN] Arch computer. Is there a "best practice" for this?
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What do you recommend to me for connect to Remote Desktop [not SSH, I need the GUI]. X2GO? NoMachine? VNC? Or other tool?
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When running e.g. xrdp on GNOME 40.4 [so the newest available version] it is not possible to establish a connection.
After days of searching the internet I am still not able to connect to Manjaro GNOME via RDP.
I’ve tried everything you can find on Google.
For example:
- possibly every XRDP guide
- changing various config files and scripts
- reinstalling GNOME
- different kernel versions
- etc.
When removing “–exit-with-session” from .xinitrc I at least get the “Oh no! Something has gone wrong.” GNOME error message.
So does somebody know how to get an RDP server working on Manjaro GNOME? It works on Manjaro KDE, so it’s not a problem with Manjaro, it also works with Ubuntu etc., so it’s not a problem with GNOME. How is it possible?
Or if it isn’t possible, why not?
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Or if it isn’t possible, why not?
Because, unless I would be mistaken, Manjaro GNOME uses Wayland as its display server, and Wayland isn’t network-transparent. You’d have to switch out Wayland for X11.
[I cannot help you with that, because I use neither GNOME nor Wayland. I am only offering up an explanation.
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According to the gnome wiki Gnome supports a RDP server. [never used it, so cannot speek from experience] If not installed on your system, install the package gnome-remote-desktop as that seems to be missing if there are no options in settings for it. If using xrdp, check out the arch wiki page for it.
Yes, Manjaro uses Wayland by default, but X11 is also installed. Logging in with X11 works just fine. Also again Ubuntu 20.10 or Fedora 35 also use Wayland but XRDP works there.
So the problem must be somewhere else.
I have gnome-remote-desktop installed. It makes connecting via VNC possible, RDP is - according to the logs - not configured.
Also there are no docs about configuring the RDP server for gnome-remote-desktop.
I’ve read the official arch wiki page for xrdp and tried everything. It just explains how to setup an XRDP server. But the problem is not with the RDP connection but with GNOME. The wiki does not mention anything about that.
Thanks, though.
Did some testing on a gnome & windows virtual with the package I mentioned. [Github] There is almost no documentation that I can find and understand tho. When staring freerdp-shadow-cli -auth [to test without authentication] a service starts and can be connected to, the windows mstsc client complains about valid certificates. The ‘server’ complains about:
[ERROR][com.freerdp.channels.audin.server] - WTSVirtualChannelQuery failed [22:20:58:656] [4632:4636] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - BIO_read returned a system error 104: Connection reset by peer [22:20:58:656] [4632:4636] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - transport_read_layer:freerdp_set_last_error_ex ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_TRANSPORT_FAILED [0x0002000D] [22:20:58:656] [4632:4636] [ERROR][com.freerdp.client.shadow] - Failed to check FreeRDP file descriptor [22:20:58:656] [4632:4643] [ERROR][com.freerdp.channels.rdpgfx.server] - WTSVirtualChannelRead failed! [22:20:58:656] [4632:4643] [ERROR][com.freerdp.channels.rdpgfx.server] - rdpgfx_server_handle_messages failed with error 1359And the client complains about a protocol error after showing a second of screen.
I understand your issue, there seems to be no simple way.
This is something that might be a solution but I’ve not tried it.
Edit There is a open issue for RDP support in Gnome-remote-desktop here
gnome-remote-desktop supports RDP and it’s working just fine if setup right. But gnome-remote-desktop is just able to share the screen. Xrdp creates a new session without using the monitor. That’s what I wanted to archive.
Maybe it will work in the future.
check out Open source XRDP server availible in Manjaro AUR repo:
xrdp: an open source RDP server. Contribute to neutrinolabs/xrdp development by creating an account on GitHub.
it creates a session on Manjaro x11rdp.
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Introduction
Remote desktop and screen sharing in libmutter is split into two separate, but optionally combined parts: screen casting, and remote control. Both are exposed via their own D-Bus APIs. The data transfer and format negotiation of the screen casting is done by PipeWire.
API
Applications that want to implement features related to screen casting and/or desktop sharing should use corresponding APIs provided by xdg-desktop-portal. Two related APIs are provided; org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast for managing screen casting sessions, and org.freedesktop.portal.RemoteDesktop for managing remote desktop [i.e. remote control] sessions. They can also be combined to create a remote desktop session with screen casting functionality.
You can find the screen cast API here and the remote desktop API here.
Remote Desktop
Remote desktop functionality is not implemented in mutter but in GNOME Remote Desktop. GNOME Remote Desktop currently supports "screen share", also known as "remote assistance" mode through VNC or RDP. VNC support is provided via LibVNCServer and RDP support is provided via FreeRDP.
VNC mode supports either authentication using a VNC password, or via a prompt allowing the user sharing the desktop to interactively grant permission.
RDP mode supports authentication using a username and password pair.
Installing
GNOME Remote Desktop will likely be installed together with GNOME via your distribution.
Enabling
Open Settings, select Sharing, and enable Screen sharing. This should automatically enable the service and you should immediately be able to connect via VNC. Currently there is no user interface for enabling RDP support, but in the future there will be.
Reporting bugs
If you encounter unexpected crashes, screen casting or remote desktop access not functioning as expected, please report bug.
Bugs should either be reported to mutter or GNOME Remote Desktop depending on where the bug is found.