Remote Desktop Under Linux

Fri Jan 1 07:17:57 UTC 2021

what rdp client would you suggest?

On 12/31/2020 3:35 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Tim here.  There are multiple ways to do remote access of which
> Remote Desktop (RDP) is only one of them.  I've never tried to use
> RDP to serve my Linux/BSD machines' GUI to another (Windows or
> otherwise) machine.  However, I can confirm that if you're sitting at
> the Linux/BSD machine, you can use RDP to access a remote Windows
> machine.  However, accessibility may vary if you need access to
> underlying accessibility data that a screen-reader might use.
>
> For accessing a Linux/BSD machine's GUI from another machine, the two
> most common ways I've encountered are to use VNC or to forward the X
> protocol.  For the former, you'd install something like the
> "tightvncserver" package on the Linux machine and install a VNC
> viewer on your local machine.  You can then connect to it from your
> local machine.  Note that this might leave your VNC/GUI login prompt
> up for others to hammer on, so I'd either enable it via SSH manually
> as-needed, or set up a secure tunnel (either a SSH tunnel or a VPN
> tunnel) to the machine and ensure that VNC only listens on localhost.
>
> In a similar fashion, if you have a local X server, you can use ssh's
> "-X" parameter tunnel to the remote machine and open windows on your
> local machine desktop. For example, issuing
>
>    local$ ssh -X user at remote.example.com
>
> creates a virtual X connection on the remote server, and then when
> SSH'ed into that machine, I can launch programs there that display
> locally such as:
>
>    user at remote$ xcalc
>
> Again, accessibility for either of them may be limited to the
> graphics, so a screen-reader might face difficulty.  But a
> screen-magnifier should still be of assistance.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> -tim
>
>
>
> On December 31, 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>   
>>
>> I have my ssh access and local GUI desktop working for my Linux
>> machine quite well.  I also have ssh access to a Linux machine on
>> the Microsoft Azure service working.
>>
>>   
>>
>> Before I go down the path of trying to get remote desktop access to
>> the GUI, does this actually work.
>>
>>   
>>
>> The article at Linux - Microsoft Azure
>> <https://portal.azure.com/#@kellykellford.onmicrosoft.com/resource/subscript
>> ions/968d4c66-18eb-48df-87b5-6d1918a03749/resourceGroups/linux/providers/Mic
>> rosoft.Compute/virtualMachines/linux/connect>  has details on what
>> you need to do to connect to the GUI for a machine running on
>> Azure.  I am hoping to use the Windows RDP client to connect and
>> just get the Gnome audio.  I know it won't be perfect.
>>
>>   
>>
>> If this does actually work, does anyone know the syntax to tell the
>> XRDP service on the Linux machine to use Gnome as the desktop
>> session?  The article shows this command but it is for a different
>> desktop.
>>
>>   
>>
>> Tell xrdp what desktop environment to use when you start your
>> session. Configure xrdp to use xfce as your desktop environment as
>> follows:
>>
>>   
>>
>> echo xfce4-session >~/.xsession
>>
>> Restart the xrdp service for the changes to take effect as follows:
>>
>> sudo service xrdp restart
>>
>>   
>>
>> Also, thanks for the answers to my other questions here.  I haven't
>> contributed much here but will offer one tidbit, on the off chance
>> anyone here is trying to use Microsoft Teams on Linux.  You have to
>> start the Linux version of Teams with the additional command line of
>> -force-renderer-accessibility.  This instructs Chrome and software
>> using Chromium, to ensure things go through the accessibility API.
>> If you don't, Orca won't read anything when Teams loads.  If you do
>> add this, Teams works fairly similar to how it does on other
>> platforms.
>>
>>   
>>
>> I know I do not post here often so in full disclosure, my day job
>> is working for Microsoft running  a service known as the enterprise
>> Disability Answer Desk that works to resolve accessibility issues
>> for business, government, education and other enterprise customers.
>>   I've wanted to understand how our technology works on Linux, where
>> we have it available.
>>
>>   
>>
>> Kelly
>>
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