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Would it be possible to use xrdp?

Would you mind telling me a little bit more about how you intend to use Xrdp?

Setting up a server would generally be:

sudo apt-get install xrdp
sudo sed -i ‘s/port=3389/port=3390/g’ /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp start

It is definitely possible to use Xrdp in WSL; the only trick is to pick a server port different from the one that WIndows itself uses.

I think this is about having it out of the box, or easily configured. It might be a nice way to provide X access to people who want to experiment with the distro without having to pay for X410, or setting up Xming etc.

Yes it was just a way to make it easy to provide desktop easily.

I tried the commands above and all I get is a blue/green screen after I login to XOrg with RDP on 3390. I've never used xrdp so not sure what to expect.

A blank blue/green screen sounds like you get the default twm X session with no apps in it, probably because the only thing you have there is X itself (which was brought in as a dependency of Xrdp). Try installing some WM or DE, e.g. apt install xfce4.

Thank you, I just ran that and installed xfce4 but I still get the same result just a blue/green screen nothing else. Do I need to start xfce4 or something? Thanks.

@AceHack Check out this video: https://vimeo.com/255052199 It was created by Kali but same steps still apply. Just don't try installing the Kali xfce desktop

I recently used Hyper-V to install Ubuntu 19.04. MSFT has a script that installs and activates xrdp upon launch of the Ubuntu gui (gnome). Here is a link: https://github.com/Microsoft/linux-vm-tools/wiki/Onboarding:-Ubuntu

This might be a good way to provide a high fidelity desktop with Pengwin.