Remote desktop to KDE from Windows

This article will describe installing KDE desktop environment and XRDP, and connecting to KDE desktop environment via XRDP.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Install KDE desktop environment
  • 2. Install XRDP
  • 3. Connect to KDE desktop environment via XRDP

1 Install KDE desktop environment

Install KDE desktop environment with this.

2 Install XRDP

#!/bin/sh -e sudo apt install -y xrdp sudo sed -e 's/^new_cursors=true/new_cursors=false/g' \ -i /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini sudo systemctl enable xrdp sudo systemctl restart xrdp echo "startplasma-x11" > ~/.xsession D=/usr/share/plasma:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop C=/etc/xdg/xdg-plasma:/etc/xdg C=${C}:/usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kf5-settings cat < ~/.xsessionrc export XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=KDE export XDG_DATA_DIRS=${D} export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=${C} EOF cat <\ sudo tee /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/xrdp-NetworkManager.pkla [xrdp-Netowrkmanager] Identity=unix-group:sudo Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control ResultAny=no ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes EOF cat <\ sudo tee /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/xrdp-packagekit.pkla [xrdp-packagekit] Identity=unix-group:sudo Action=org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh ResultAny=no ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes EOF sudo systemctl restart polkit

3 Connect to KDE desktop environment via XRDP

Use Xorg as a session type. Windows Remote Desktop Connection is as the following.

Remote desktop to KDE from Windows