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You have received a black screen after initiating the remote connection to the Xrdp Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server on Ubuntu.
Fix Black Screen Remote Desktop to Ubuntu
1. Go to the Ubuntu desktop then open Terminal app.
2. Switch to root account using sudo -s command.
teevee@teevee:~$ sudo -s
[sudo] password for teevee:
root@teevee:/home/teevee#3. Open file using any text editor, in this case, we use nano text editor.
nano /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh4. Add below lines into the opened file before this line if test -r /etc/profile; then.
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
. $HOME/.profileThe result after added those lines.
#!/bin/sh
# xrdp X session start script (c) 2015, 2017 mirabilos
# published under The MirOS Licence
if test -r /etc/profile; then
. /etc/profile
fi
if test -r /etc/default/locale; then
. /etc/default/locale
test -z "${LANG+x}" || export LANG
test -z "${LANGUAGE+x}" || export LANGUAGE
test -z "${LC_ADDRESS+x}" || export LC_ADDRESS
test -z "${LC_ALL+x}" || export LC_ALL
test -z "${LC_COLLATE+x}" || export LC_COLLATE
test -z "${LC_CTYPE+x}" || export LC_CTYPE
test -z "${LC_IDENTIFICATION+x}" || export LC_IDENTIFICATION
test -z "${LC_MEASUREMENT+x}" || export LC_MEASUREMENT
test -z "${LC_MESSAGES+x}" || export LC_MESSAGES
test -z "${LC_MONETARY+x}" || export LC_MONETARY
test -z "${LC_NAME+x}" || export LC_NAME
test -z "${LC_NUMERIC+x}" || export LC_NUMERIC
test -z "${LC_PAPER+x}" || export LC_PAPER
test -z "${LC_TELEPHONE+x}" || export LC_TELEPHONE
test -z "${LC_TIME+x}" || export LC_TIME
test -z "${LOCPATH+x}" || export LOCPATH
fi
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
. $HOME/.profile
if test -r /etc/profile; then
. /etc/profile
fi
test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession
exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession
Save the file by press Ctrl + O then exit the editor by press Ctrl + X. Then go back to Windows machine and trying to connect to Ubuntu server using Remote Desktop.
As you can see, the black screen was gone. And that’s it.
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