As a Windows user and a complete newbie to Zorin & Linux OS I am struggling to set up Microsoft RDP to access the Zorin desktop. I have managed to get Microsoft RDP to log in but all it shows is the Zorin OS desktop screen but none of the toolbars are visible so I cannot do anything. Any ideas. Remember I am a complete newbie to linux systems.
Would you be able to share a screenshot of your RDP tool that you're using to remote into Zorin, and what that tool shows you? And are you able to hit, say, the windows (super) key and have the menu popup for you when you are remoted in? What I'm kind of thinking is it may be that the RDP session isn't scaling correctly and may be just out of view of the window that opens up.
I had a long session with CoPilot on problem and it turns out, for me because I have an AMD APU R7 processor, the GPU accelerators are not being used. RDP immediately pushes the cpu to 22% when I remote it. Subsequently the RDP crawls because the rendering is being done (LVpipe) all by the cpu. I hope Zorin folks are going to fix this issue. I really like Zorin and do not want to change. But, I might have too. Remoting in with RDP from Windows 11 over a lan connection. I have zorin 18.1 core installed on remote PC. I have installed XRDP. I am not using the new remote feature in 18.1 I would not like to change over to VNC.
I would take a look at Remmina as it comes with Zorin and it is cross-platform.
Alternatively use TightVNC:
Documentation here:
Well. I had RDP working after I backed up my files and then did a re-install of the zorin 18.1 os. While doing this I selected the safe graphics option. Then changed the settings to allow for remote desktop connections in the system settings area. This has been working well for me with the following qwirks: 1. You have to log into the remote PC twice, first to connect and then second to actually log in. After some time of remoting in and some reboots along the way, it has started acting up again. It is switching between Xorg and the waylin arbitrarily. it just does it. If I delete the profile on the windows PC for the RDP session it will correct up. Then after a while it reverts to "What the heck" again. I do not have XRDP installed on the Linux remote pc. It is just not stable at this point.