On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 07:09:37PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > > I definitely needed to install xorgxrdp as well to get my normal desktop > > as usual. While on normal apt-get installs Recommends are installed I > > wonder what alternative could bring up a sensible desktop otherwise and > > what a user needs to to to activate this. If there is no such > > alternative its probably better to use Depends: xorgxrdp rather than > > Recommends. > > Well, you could still use VNC by selecting the VNC session from the session > selector in the login screen.
Ahhh, that's OK, thought. > I figure that packages can assume that Recommends are installed when choosing > their default behaviour and that someone who disables Install-Recommends > knows > that they might want to align configuration accordingly. Yes. > However, if you think that the default configuration should work even without > Install-Recommends, we can also make xorgxrdp a dependency. No, forget my comment. > > One I've got the desktop connection I tested the keyboard in a normal > > xterm. What should I say: No special German characters, other keys are > > quite unexpected. I somehow feel back in the time where we were > > desperately seeking a remote connection technique that has all the keys > > printed on a German keyboard right on the remote computer. Any idea > > how this could be fixed? > > We actually saw that with a single Microsoft Remote Desktop client version, I > think the one from Windows 7. Well, yes - that's the case here and this is no subject to change for the next year(s). > Windows Vista and Windows 8 worked flawlessly It > also seemed to be connected to a GNOME bug because it didn't happen with > other > desktops. *However*, this also happened with the old xrdp. In the setup we are currently using Jessie xrdp did a sensible job compared to all alternatives we tried. > Could you please try what happens when you force de layout on the server by > executing „setxkbmap de“ once after login? Cool. This works nicely even with @| etc, where you need AltGr. > I think we will be able to fix this issue. Sound promissing after "setxkbmap de" seems to fix the issue. > > I also forced on the stable (Jessie) machine the actual Jessie version via > > > > $ sudo apt-get install xrdp=0.6.1-2 > > > > and than tried > > > > $ LC_ALL=C sudo dpkg -i xrdp_0.9.0~20150902+gitc0ef543-1_amd64.deb > > $ LC_ALL=C sudo dpkg -i xrdp_0.9.0~20150902+gitc0ef543-1_amd64.deb > > (Reading database ... 357723 files and directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to unpack xrdp_0.9.0~20150902+gitc0ef543-1_amd64.deb ... > > Unpacking xrdp (0.9.0~20150902+gitc0ef543-1) over > > (0.9.0~20150902+gitc0ef543-1) ... Setting up xrdp > > (0.9.0~20150902+gitc0ef543-1) ... > > E: /var/run/xrdp has wrong permissions > > invoke-rc.d: initscript xrdp, action "start" failed. > > dpkg: error processing package xrdp (--install): > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u4) ... > > Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ... > > Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u4) ... > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > xrdp > > That would mean the upgrade path is broken. That's strange because we > actually > upgraded from the old package to our new one on jessie. > > Did you install 0.9.0 before installing 0.6.2, i.e. did you downgrade in the > first place? Yes, that's what actually happened. I did not tried a "clean upgrade". Should I purge everything and try the clean 0.6.2 -> 0.9.0 upgrade just for verification? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de