Cinnamon: Cinnamon incompatible with remote desktop connection via xrdp?

Created on 19 Jul 2012 · 14Comments · Source: linuxmint/cinnamon

It seems I cannot get Cinnamon to load when I use xrdp. Cinnamon is the default window manager on Linux Mint 13 AFAIK, but when I log in via remote desktop connection, I get something that looks a lot like gnome2 as the window manager....

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If this is an xrdp issue rather than a cinnamon issue, please let me know. Thanks!

ghost on 19 Jul 2012

This is probably because there is no 3D acceleration when running remotely - also llvmpipe is probably not available.

AlbertJP on 19 Jul 2012

Can you please check if this issue persists in latest Cinnamon 2.2 (Mint 17) ? Please close the defect otherwise.

anandrkris on 6 Aug 2014

Linux Mint 17.1's Cinnamon crashes with sesman-xvnc via rdp still...

epicstar on 26 Feb 2015

Anyone has a solution or workaround for this? I know other desktop environments, such as MATE, works with XRDP, but I'd rather not switch desktop environment. :(

I would be happy if I could use Cinnamon for everything, but install and use MATE for XRDP only, but haven't managed to get that working either.

anton-johansson on 28 Oct 2015

@skibum1981, is this still an issue for you with Cinnamon 3.0?

Vahan86 on 19 Nov 2016

@JosephMcc, can we close the issue?

Vahan86 on 19 Dec 2016

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Will there be an improvement for this? I'm using Cinnamon 3.2 with Mint 18.1 x64 with xRDP and it is still not connecting via rdp.

maldag on 25 Jan 2017

Using Cinnamon 3.2.7 - same problem still. Use fallback mode, but keyboard does not work, for instance letter "s" means same as "windows button" - cannot work with.

gitjaala on 16 Apr 2017

a some problem

newerit on 31 Oct 2017

same problem. I can connect, but goes back to fallback mode after crash. Linux Mint 18.3, latest nvidia drivers

joseortiz3 on 21 Jan 2018

I still experience same problem. Is there any plan to fix this?

hiro7281 on 17 Feb 2019

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Fix ?

dexter74 on 22 Apr 2019

RDP from Windows or from Mint to Mint works for me in Mint 19.2 via Xorg.
Also desktop sharing works using RDP to console or vnc-any if VNC server running on Mint (even if vino is installed, vino-server or some other server must run).
Only issue I see is that apart from xrdp also xorgxrdp must be installed. I think it's a dependency in Ubuntu but just recommended in Mint. So this is WFM.
If this doesn't work for someone, please provide exact details.