Remote Desktop Connection for Raspberry PI (xrdp)

On Linux, we can usually run startx to start the desktop. However, this is not supported over SSH because it requires the X-server (Graphics) to run and the SSH connections are usually text-based only.

If you try to run startx remotely using SSH, you will get messages like this.

However, the process seems to hang until you press Ctrl + C (Signal 2) to exit. The X window does start on remotely, so if you connect monitor to Raspberry PI you will see the X windows does run.

The easy installation of XRDP enables to remote desktop connect to the Raspberry PI. To install xrdp simply run sudo apt-get install xrdp on Raspberry PI. For other linux distribution, command might slightly differs, e.g. sudo yum install xrdp

After xrdp is installed, you can run either sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp restart or sudo service xrdp restart, both produces similar output:

Stopping RDP Session manager : sesman xrdp.
Starting Remote Desktop Protocol server : xrdp sesman.

Now we can invoke the Remote Desktop Connection, e.g. on Windows.

And, login window shows up:

After login, we have the remote desktop, which is like we are directly controlling the Raspberry PI.

Such is a lightweight and really easy tool to install for a remote administrative GUI desktop.

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