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Enable Windows style RDP server in Ubuntu
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| Why would you need this? | |
| Because NxServer or VNC needs a special client installed in order to connect. | |
| If your destination Ubuntu machine has multiple displays installed, you will eventually go crazy configuring it to be correctly seen from a Windows machine with a single display. It will show you 2 desktops on a single monitor... | |
| Enabling Windows style RDP server in Ubuntu in easy. | |
| Steps: | |
| 1. sudo apt-get install xrdp | |
| 2. cd ~ | |
| 3. echo "gnome-session --session=gnome-classic" > .xsession | |
| 4. sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp restart | |
| You can use a different session types for the gnome session: | |
| ubuntu | |
| gnome-classic | |
| gnome-fallback | |
| ubuntu-2d |
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