Marcela outed the likely issue in the list-o-packages ... Wayland.
I've been concerned about this for a long time already, that Wayland
adoption will render certain features/functions unavailable.
There's no fighting the Wayland wave. X11 is long in the tooth and has
always been too chatty. (Though fears about security are inflated.)
My argument is rather that the Wayland implementers will be more
diligent ... that they would be thorough.
In this case, it's the installer developers, but similar admonition:
don't break stuff! (and RDP seems broken)
I'm not sure any of this would help VNC because (from all I can tell)
VNC is inherently X11.
But there IS some accommodation for X11 in the Wayland world, and maybe
that just needs to grow.
Back, then, to the installer coders: don't kill off the VNC option!
(until RDP is universal)
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On 12/22/25 5:18 AM, Neale Ferguson wrote:
My problems were happening during the install process so I was booting from the
KERNEL.IMG/GENERIC.PRM/INITRD.IMG. Therefore, there’s no option for installing
the RDP stuff prior to running the install. So either (a) there’s a problem
with my MacOS RDP program or (b) there’s a problem with the stuff in the
installation materials.
However, I can try installing these packages on the system I installed using
the “text” method. If I am able to connect to the daemon running there then I
know it’s the installation materials at fault.
Thanks...
Neale
Hi,
in SUSE we made the same change to RDP. I can give you a list of packages
you need to install. They might have different names
on CentOS/RHEL.
This was working for SLE-16.0. Our desktop team needed to fix some packages
to make it work. Good luck!
On your client, just install Remmia
On the server:
# Setting up gnome-remote-desktop
sudo zypper in -y gdm-systemd gnome-remote-desktop freerdp-server
gnome-session-wayland
sudo systemctl enable gdm
sudo systemctl start gdm
# You probably have to do `su -` here first for this one:
sudo -u gnome-remote-desktop winpr-makecert -silent -rdp -path
~gnome-remote-desktop rdp-tls
# Set RDP_USER and RDP_PASS to whatever you want
sudo grdctl --system rdp set-credentials "$RDP_USER" "$RDP_PASS"
sudo grdctl --system rdp set-tls-key
/var/lib/gnome-remote-desktop/rdp-tls.keysudo grdctl --system rdp
set-tls-cert /var/lib/gnome-remote-desktop/rdp-tls.crt
sudo grdctl --system rdp enable
sudo systemctl --now enable gnome-remote-desktop.service
# MAYBE for debugging:
systemctl stop firewall
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