Xrdp has horrendously bad documentation and installation scripts but it does mostly work after configuration. You have to manually edit /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh to

Xrdp has horrendously bad documentation and installation scripts but it does mostly work after configuration. You have to manually edit /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh to make xrdp launch a desktop environment when it accepts a connection. If you don't do this, you'll get a blank screen or something non-useful, like a session with just one Xterm window and no desktop environment. Note that Linux does not support shifting sessions from the local keyboard, mouse & screen to remote access. Further, the major desktop environments don't support simultaneous sessions from the same user. With any of the remote access tools that don't simply take over the local screen and keyboard, if you have an active session on the physical screen, you won't be able to connect to it remotely, nor will you be able to start a new session remotely under the same login. you'll need to log out from the physical screen before attempting a remote connection. Finally, Xrdp clipboard sharing does not work with Linux clients.