I have two debian bookworm systems. One system is running the RDP daemon to accept remote desktop requests. The other is using Remmina as a client.

If I log into the host system locally, it correctly uses the IceWM windows manager. However, when I log on via Remmina from the other system, the connection uses the lxqt manager.

How do I set the host up so that it uses the proper windows manager for the user instead of defaulting to lxqt? I tried googling the issue but the words and phrases I used seemed to bring up links mostly for Windows issues and/or connection issues. With both machines being debian and the connections being fine, they were not of much help. ;)

Thanks!
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Re: Remmina RDP
By: Mike Powell to All on Thu May 02 2024 10:36 am

How do I set the host up so that it uses the proper windows manager for the user instead of defaulting to lxqt? I tried googling the issue but the

I assume you are using xrdp on your Debian.

According to some random Internet docs, xrdp will execute /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh, which will in turn try to execute ~/.xinitrc or /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. In order to enforce the use of a desktop environment you ought to edit ~/.xinitrc and have it launch your desktop.
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