On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 at 18:52, Lew Wolfgang wrote:

then run Win-10 in VirtualBox to connect to a virtual Win-10 instance (Citrix) in AWS somewhere

Can't you connect to the remote instance using Remmina or some other Linux MS RDP client? It's about 10Y ago now but I worked at a company that used remote desktops for everything. I used my laptop with Ubuntu at first, until my local thin client was fully updated. Nobody knew. As I was connected to a full-screen Windows VM in a datacentre somewhere, once I'd logged in, my Linux laptop looked just like a Windows machine unless you looked at the mouse pointer very closely. There are lots: Remmina, XRDP, rdesktop, Vinagre, and more. https://www.helpwire.app/blog/remote-desktop-client-linux/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

On Sat, 29 Oct 2022 at 17:06, Lew Wolfgang wrote:

The only way into my enclave is through Amazon Win-10 virtual machines, and the only way to connect to them is by using Citrix Workspace, which isn't available for Linux.

Why didn't you say so in the first place, then? https://www.citrix.com/downloads/workspace-app/linux/workspace-app-for-linux... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 7:00 PM Liam Proven wrote:

On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 at 18:52, Lew Wolfgang wrote:

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then run Win-10 in VirtualBox to connect to a virtual Win-10 instance (Citrix) in AWS somewhere

Can't you connect to the remote instance using Remmina or some other Linux MS RDP client?

It's about 10Y ago now but I worked at a company that used remote desktops for everything. I used my laptop with Ubuntu at first, until my local thin client was fully updated. Nobody knew. As I was connected to a full-screen Windows VM in a datacentre somewhere, once I'd logged in, my Linux laptop looked just like a Windows machine unless you looked at the mouse pointer very closely.

There are lots: Remmina, XRDP, rdesktop, Vinagre, and more.

I think these are Linux clients to access a Windows desktop. I want the opposite: Windows client to access a Linux desktop. -- Roger Oberholtzer

On 10/31/22 06:42, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 6:52 PM Lew Wolfgang wrote:

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For kde, edit /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh and make SESSION=plasma. Then login again.

Roger, I've always done it similar to the following using display:1: https://www.linuxtopia.org/HowToGuides/VNC_setup_Linux_Windows.html I use fluxbox as the remote desktop (blisteringly fast regardless), then it doesn't matter whether I connect from Linux using or Windows using vncviewer, you get the desktop of your choice. I know you have discussed this a bit in your thread, but I've had good luck with it. You don't need X actually running on the server box, starting vncserver will set that up and make it available. I pretty much followed these steps exactly. When you start vncserver on the box you want to provide the desktop from, it will create a default config. (e.g. systemctl start vncserver@:1) Kill the server then edit it and your .xinitrc to taste. You can set the ssh tunnel up to any box you have handy (see link). I start the vncserver over the same ssh connection and then just connect to the desktop. The vnc server config I use is: $ cat .vnc/config ## Supported server options to pass to vncserver upon invocation can be listed ## in this file. See the following manpages for more: vncserver(1) Xvnc(1). ## Several common ones are shown below. Uncomment and modify to your liking. ## securitytypes=vncauth,tlsvnc desktop=stpdsktop geometry=1440x864 localhost alwaysshared And my .xinitrc cat .xinitrc #!/bin/sh userresources=$HOME/.Xresources usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap # merge in defaults and keymaps if [ -f $sysresources ]; then xrdb -merge $sysresources fi if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then xmodmap $sysmodmap fi if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then xrdb -merge "$userresources" fi if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then xmodmap "$usermodmap" fi # start some nice programs if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f" done unset f fi # twm & # xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 & # xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 & # xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 & # exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login ## source xprofile for pc speaker off and keyboard setup [ -f ~/.xprofile ] && . ~/.xprofile ## some applications that should be run in the background # xscreensaver & xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr & # exec startfluxbox session=${1:-fluxbox} case $session in fluxbox ) xscreensaver & exec startfluxbox;; i3 ) exec i3;; * ) exec $1;; esac -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 7:35 PM Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

On 28.10.2022 10:08, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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2. I cannot get it to share display:0. In fact, that's what I really want. It is running the desktop I am really after. I have tried things like making my own definition in Xrdp that should access display:0, based on various suggestions. No go.

What made you think it was possible? Xrdp does not support it.

https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/960

There are many discussions (like your link) where people describe how they have done specifically this with Xrdp server. If the results are available to the standard Windows RDP client is unclear. Others in the same thread make opposite claims. So that to me means it is unclear what people think they are doing. I am guessing that it might be easier to just install a Windows client that can connect to the Linux desktop as I do with my Linux vncviewer client. The tightvnc Windows client seems to be working. -- Roger Oberholtzer