window not showing desktop background when logged in with non-root user about xrdp

[matt335672]

This is possibly related to (but not the same as) #3053

What's in the directory /usr/share/xsessions/ on your system?

[Hiero32]

@modernNeo
Did you logout from local session before login to xrdp session?
It is not allowed the same user login to both local and xrdp session at the same.

[modernNeo]

oh, sorry for not responding sooner...for some reason github didn't notify me of the new comments on this issue....will follow-up tomorrow

[modernNeo]

@matt335672
finally got around to addressing your comment. sorry for delay

$ ls -l /usr/share/xsessions/
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268 Mar 19  2023 cinnamon2d.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155 Mar 19  2023 cinnamon.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  86 Jan 11  2022 lightdm-xsession.desktop

[matt335672]

What's in the cinnamon2d.desktop and cinnamon.desktop files?

[matt335672]

@modernNeo - do you need any more help with this?

[modernNeo]

2024-Jun-25 03:13:15 PM jace@jace-debian-desktop:/home/jace
 $ cat /usr/share/xsessions/cinnamon2d.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Cinnamon (Software Rendering)
Comment=This session logs you into Cinnamon (using software rendering)
Exec=cinnamon-session-cinnamon2d
TryExec=/usr/bin/cinnamon2d
Icon=
Type=Application
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=cinnamon
X-GNOME-Provides=cinnamon2d

2024-Jun-25 03:13:47 PM jace@jace-debian-desktop:/home/jace
 $ cat /usr/share/xsessions/cinnamon.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Cinnamon
Comment=This session logs you into Cinnamon
Exec=cinnamon-session-cinnamon
TryExec=/usr/bin/cinnamon
Icon=
Type=Application

[matt335672]

Try creating one of these softlinks for your RDP user (after checking you don't have a ~/.xsession):-

ln -sf /usr/bin/cinnamon-session-cinnamon ~/.xsession

or:-

ln -sf /usr/bin/cinnamon-session-cinnamon2d ~/.xsession

[modernNeo]

cat .xsession
cinnamon

I don't actually remember if I did that manually or something else. Should I remove it?

[matt335672]

Yes - cinnamon is not the correct command to start a session. The correct command is from the Exec= line in the desktop file(s)

[modernNeo]

ln -sf /usr/bin/cinnamon-session-cinnamon ~/.xsession that fixed it, thanks!