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Setup Fedora 23 Gnome3 with xRDP via XFCE4
#!/bin/bash
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# Setup Fedora 23 Gnome3 with xRDP via XFCE4
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# install the XFCE4 desktop
sudo dnf groupinstall xfce-desktop
# open standard RDP ports
sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=3389/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3389/tcp
# install TigerVNC and xRDP
sudo dnf install tigervnc tigervnc-server
sudo dnf install xrdp
# stop disabling SELinux
sudo chcon --type=bin_t /usr/sbin/xrdp
sudo chcon --type=bin_t /usr/sbin/xrdp-sesman
# enable xRDP service
sudo systemctl enable xrdp.service
sudo systemctl enable xrdp-sesman
# start xRDP service
sudo systemctl start xrdp-sesman
sudo systemctl start xrdp.service
# set XFCE4 desktop for RDP connections
sudo echo "startxfce4" > ~/.Xclients
sudo chmod +x ~/.Xclients
sudo systemctl restart xrdp.service
@janpeterh
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The script works great, but why is it necessary? xrdp and Gnome3 worked without any issues in Fedora 22. In Fedora 23 they don´t, thyt is why the workaround with xfce is necessary. Is there a bug in Gnome 3 / Fedora 23?

@JEPSABER
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This works great but is there a way to connect to the same session all the time?

@janpeterh
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xrdp and Gnome is still needed for Qt4 applications!

@JPtheJP
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JPtheJP commented Dec 2, 2015

Hi,

I downloaded & installed a fresh Fedora 23 this morning (Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso) and I did not install xcfe desktop. The result was working so-so with lots of shadow drawing and desktop size issues using Gnome. I then updated the install with up to date patches (~700MB worth of updates) & rebooted. Now I have a working xrdp using the default Gnome 3.

Give it a try.
Still thanks for the script as it still make a very simple install of xrdp on Fedora.

@zipgun
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zipgun commented Jan 22, 2016

How i can allow more users to loging using the xrdp¿?

"VNC SOME ERROR" trying ith another one

@roterdam
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+1 for @JPtheJP's comment. I didn't need to install anything beyond xrdp.

@looneyr8
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Thanks for the script works great except one issue and not sure why. After the groupinstall of the xfce desktop the firewalld service will not start. As a bit of a noob when it comes to F23 I was wondering why it wont now start.

Mind you I now have excellent access to the machine remotely and the XFCE desktop is much easier to navigate.

@FossPrime
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Didn't need the script, worked flawlessly out of the box, I just needed the good ol' systemctl start xrdp. A tad slow though.

@aanno
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aanno commented Apr 2, 2020

Well, with KDE it does not work, and this since Fedora 24: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1820270

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