Fedora 26: Connect to Cinnamon desktop environment via XRDP

This article will describe installing Cinnamon desktop environment and XRDP, and connecting to Cinnamon desktop environment via XRDP.

1 Install Cinnamon desktop environment

Install Cinnamon desktop environment with this.

2 Install XRDP

Install XRDP.

$ sudo dnf install -y xrdp
$ sudo systemctl enable xrdp
$ sudo systemctl start xrdp

3 Create ~/.Xclients

Create .Xclients in home directory of user to be connected.

$ echo "cinnamon-session" > ~/.Xclients
$ chmod a+x ~/.Xclients

4 Connect to Cinnamon desktop environment via XRDP

The rdesktop connection is as the following.

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