#53 XRDP doesn't work with Unity on Ubuntu 14.04

[tradery]

I don't know if this is a bug in XRDP or an incompatibility between XRDP and the new Unity shell that comes with Ubuntu 14.04 or later, but here's what's happening.

1. Install Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10.
2. Install XRDP and configure it to use the Unity shell.
3. Connect to the Ubuntu box with an RDP client.
4. After logging in, all that is displayed is a gray screen.

Expected result: seeing the Ubuntu desktop and being able to interact with it in the RDP client.

XRDP configured to use other desktop environments (Mate, Kde, Xfce) installed on the same Ubuntu box works as expected - I was able to connect to it from an RDP client and interact with the system.

Same behavior has been reported by others (google Unity, xrdp, Ubuntu 14)

[cyril]

UbuntuStudio 17.04 x64 (Xfce), xrdp 0.9.1 + rdesktop 1.8.3: login screen + crash or blue screen without any desktop.

Just after installation, login + crash:
$ rdesktop -g 1272x992 localhost
Autoselected keyboard map fr
ERROR: localhost: unable to connect
$

Later: login + blue screen without desktop:
$ rdesktop -g 1272x992 localhost
Autoselected keyboard map fr
Connection established using plain RDP.
$ rdesktop localhost
Autoselected keyboard map fr
Connection established using plain RDP.
$