Install a GUI (xfce)

Ubuntu GUI commands:

• sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade

• sudo apt-get purge xrdp

• sudo apt install -y xrdp

• sudo apt install -y xfce4

• sudo apt install -y xfce4-goodies

• sudo cp /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini.bak

  • Optional: sudo sed -i 's/3389/3390/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini

• sudo sed -i 's/max_bpp=32/#max_bpp=32\nmax_bpp=128/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini

• sudo sed -i 's/xserverbpp=24/#xserverbpp=24\nxserverbpp=128/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini

• echo xfce4-session > ~/.xsession

• sudo vim /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh

comment these lines to:

#test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession
#exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession

add these lines:

# xfce
startxfce4

• sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp start