Centos 7

yum -y install epel-release
yum -y groupinstall "GNOME Desktop"
yum -y install xrdp xorg-x11-xinit
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=3389/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload
systemctl start xrdp.service
systemctl enable xrdp.service

Centos 6

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget -O epel6.key.txt 'http://keys.gnupg.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x0608B895&op=get'
rpm --import epel6.key.txt
yum -y groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop"
yum -y install xrdp xorg-x11-xinit tigervnc-server gnome-panel gnome-terminal

Using Mate instead of Gnome in XRDP

If you are running XRDP and want MATE to come up – each user needs to log on and at a bash prompt execute:

echo "exec mate-session" > ~/.Xclients
chmod 700 ~/.Xclients

then log off and log back on again

Force MATE on all new users (accounts that have not be created) using XRDP

echo "exec mate-session" > /etc/skel/.Xclients
chmod 700 /etc/skel/.Xclients

Using KDE instead of Gnome in XRDP

If you are running XRDP and want KDE to come up – each user needs to log on and at a bash prompt execute:

echo "startkde" > ~/.Xclients
chmod 700 ~/.Xclients

then log off and log back on again

Force KDE on all new users (accounts that have not be created) using XRDP

echo "startkde" > /etc/skel/.Xclients
chmod 700 /etc/skel/.Xclients

 

Problems running XRDP?

Centos 7 system and xrdp would not start. Error logged in /var/log/messages: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/xrdp: Permission denied

Fix:

chcon -t bin_t /usr/sbin/xrdp /usr/sbin/xrdp-sesman

Are you getting the following message in the /var/log/xrdp-sesman.log: errno: 2, description: No such file or directory

Centos 6

The two following lines should fix that.

yum -y groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop"
yum -y install xorg-x11-xinit tigervnc-server gnome-panel gnome-terminal

The path is incorrect or bash_profile is ignored

fix for xrdp path

diff -u /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh.o /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh
--- /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh.o	2009-09-17 05:39:53.000000000 +1000
+++ /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh	2010-07-06 16:50:45.926245031 +1000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash -l

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611669

xrdp could not acquire name on session bus

Add

unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

to the top line of ~/.Xclients

 

Authentication is required to access the PC/SC daemon

 systemctl stop pcscd.socket
systemctl stop pcscd
systemctl disable pcscd.socket
systemctl disable pcscd.service