Raspbian Stretch Light: Install desktop and XRDP

Hello all,

today we want to install the desktop and XRDP in Raspian Stretch Light, but we encountered some stumbling blocks.

If we have connected our Raspberry to a network and activated ssh, we can connect with the commands "ssh pi@raspberrypi", password "raspberry" and as always first configure with "raspi-config".

Install the GUI with the command "sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-ui-mods -y".

When the installation is finished we make sure with "sudo apt-get purge realvnc-vnc-server" that there is no VNC on the system.

Now we can install the server service for the MSTSC with "sudo apt-get install xrdp" so that we can log in later comfortably and do not need an extra client.

To be able to log in later we still have to enter a permission:

We navigate with "cd /etc/X11/" into the folder and open with "sudo nano Xwrapper.config" the file in which we change the entry "allowed_users=console" into "allowed_users=anybody" and save with Ctrl+O.

After a reboot with "sudo restart now" we connect again and update as usual with: "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade".

Then make sure that our Raspi boots with GUI by selecting with "sudo raspi-config" item 3 Boot Options, B1 Desktop, B4 Desktop auto login.

After a reboot we can already connect to XRDP:

and log in:

 we have done it, we are in the desktop:

[since this is a test installation I have not changed the password here in the example].