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hardy orbit Dec 30, 2024, 4:45 PM

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I managed to successfully connect to a FreeRDP-Server session and I get a grey screen with a cursor but I'm not sure where to go from here to get an Xorg session to launch a WM or DE. Could I get some help?

tough smelt Dec 31, 2024, 7:11 AM

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https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/960 seems to be relevant, except it uses a different server and even that is just a proxy to x11vnc

GitHub

Can xrdp connect to an existing Xorg session? · Issue #960 · neutri...

Existing session in this case is my normal/console Xorg session.

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why would you even go through the trouble of using microsoft's rdp protocol on linux

hardy orbit Dec 31, 2024, 8:12 AM

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Good question, it's a work laptop, and they are very weird about any remote access tech, so rdp is like my only option

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I managed to sneak parsec on there for a bit before the scan caught it

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I'll check out that post in AM, ty 🙂

tough smelt Dec 31, 2024, 3:06 PM

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if you're by any chance using Gnome as your home environment or whatever, Gnome has a built in RDP server that connects you to its existing x11 or wayland session

hardy orbit Dec 31, 2024, 5:58 PM

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Yeah, I really want to avoid gnome if I can

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do you know how to generate default PAM config files for Arch?

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I have made some progress but its choking on a missing common-account file from /etc/pam.d/

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but I haven't a notion what that should look like

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any Ive found online have been customized so not ideal

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pam_unix(ogon:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=

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