Comments on: Raspberry Pi: Set Up Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) – Windows PC

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 21:10:22 +0000

I’ll chime in as well. I had RDP working perfect for 8 months then we had a power failure and it no longer works. Benn working on it for days and still have the black screen when connecting. I removed RDP and config files and reinstalled, still black screen

Any ideas?

Thanks

By: CC

CC — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:10:51 +0000

In reply to Willem Melching. Same setup & issue on my side!

By: Willem Melching

Willem Melching — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:40:12 +0000

I see a black window. It shows the correct name of the Raspi but not the raspi desktop. I have a Raspi 5 and Windows 10

By: Eduard

Eduard — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:02:20 +0000

I am facing the same issue as others with distorted graphics.
Being anything but new to Linux but still quite new Raspberry Pi, I am also looking for a solution.
Obviously, disabling video acceleration “solves” it, but you fall back to slow software rendering using llvmpipe.

The “solution” that I found for this was in /etc/X11/xrdp/xorg.conf, under Section “Device”, changing the value behind Option “DRMDevice” from “/dev/dri/renderD128” to “”.
But disabling it system wide in the Raspberry Pi’s config.txt file does also work indeed, like others mention.

However, it’s all bad.

The Raspberry Pi still has a GPU, albeit a small one, and I want to take advantage of it.
So I want to actually get the Mesa V3D driver working with Xrdp.
Webbrowsers are not the best way to test it though. The most simple solution to actually check what you are using is glxgears -info (check GL_RENDERER to see what you are using).
The animation of shows the same distortion as the webbrowsers when using the V3D driver, while it works “fine” with the llvmpipe. Any video game would have the same issue.

If anyone knows the solution it would be great. Otherwise giving up on RDP and getting back to Wayland and VNC would probably be the better solution.

By: Guy

Guy — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:53:33 +0000

SOLUTION for the rdp not connecting, your raspi screen has to be connected to hdmi0 port which is the left port next to the power inport usb-c.
Then reboot.

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:03:58 +0000

I’ve managed a few times to log in remotely with Microsoft Remote Desktop, but after a while, raspberry started rejecting my XRDP. it just won’t connect, opens the window then closes. Do you have any idea what I can do? I even tried reinstalling the operating system but it still doesn’t work.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:09:07 +0000

In reply to Dan. I finally have a headless Raspberry Pi 5B and am using it with xrdp. After commenting out the dtoverlay line in /boot/config.txt, both chromium and Firefox browsers work. They are pretty slow in startup, however, after they are on-screen, they work fine.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:36:25 +0000

Still no luck with browsers. I have tried commenting out the dtoverlay line in /boot/config.txt, but then the monitor attached to the RPi is blank after booting.

I tried dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d and dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d with the same results:
Firefox browser window is scrambled
Chromium browser wind is displayed on the RPi monitor and works fine there but is not controllable from the xrdp window on the PC.

I tried dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d-pi4 and now both Chromium and Firefox browsers display on the xrdp window but scrambled and unusable.

I found this thread :
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=358637
and tried one of the solutions- in xrdp screen terminal window enter
firefox –safe-mode
This brings up an error message and a dialog. I clicked ‘continue’ and the Firefox bowser opened with a beautiful page. I tried several sites and everything seems to work.
Unfortunately, now when trying to open Firefox on the RPi monitor, it opens in the xrdp window.
So, for now, I can use Firefox in the xrdp window on my PC and Chromium in the real monitor. I can live with this, but I don’t understand it.

By: Markku

Markku — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:07:36 +0000

I have been accessing a remote RBPi3 using xrdp for months. I mainly run a Thonny instance on the RBpi to tune a Python IoT application that in turn runs on an ESP32 controlled by the Pi. Complex stuff 🙂 Anyhow, some occasional (probably bad Wi-Fi related) visual problems set aside, everything has worked very, very well.

I also have and old Linx tablet that used to have Windows 8. I replaced it with Debian 12 (32-bit) and I can access it using xrdp, once again. The xrdp daemon is the only remote utility that has been reliable and fast enough when used with low-end devices, and that said with almost 20 years of VNC related experience.

By: Uche A

Uche A — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:04:41 +0000

Very help and as well as slightly more responsive than TigerVNC I had been using.
Had same garbled screen with Chromium and Firefox browsers. But commenting off the line as mentioned by Claudius sorted it out:

sudo vi /boot/config.txt
— found and comment out the line with “dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d”
— saved and rebooted.