Tim here. There are multiple ways to do remote access of which Remote Desktop (RDP) is only one of them. I've never tried to use RDP to serve my Linux/BSD machines' GUI to another (Windows or otherwise) machine. However, I can confirm that if you're sitting at the Linux/BSD machine, you can use RDP to access a remote Windows machine. However, accessibility may vary if you need access to underlying accessibility data that a screen-reader might use. For accessing a Linux/BSD machine's GUI from another machine, the two most common ways I've encountered are to use VNC or to forward the X protocol. For the former, you'd install something like the "tightvncserver" package on the Linux machine and install a VNC viewer on your local machine. You can then connect to it from your local machine. Note that this might leave your VNC/GUI login prompt up for others to hammer on, so I'd either enable it via SSH manually as-needed, or set up a secure tunnel (either a SSH tunnel or a VPN tunnel) to the machine and ensure that VNC only listens on localhost. In a similar fashion, if you have a local X server, you can use ssh's "-X" parameter tunnel to the remote machine and open windows on your local machine desktop. For example, issuing local$ ssh -X user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx creates a virtual X connection on the remote server, and then when SSH'ed into that machine, I can launch programs there that display locally such as: user@remote$ xcalc Again, accessibility for either of them may be limited to the graphics, so a screen-reader might face difficulty. But a screen-magnifier should still be of assistance. Hope this helps, -tim On December 31, 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi, > > > > I have my ssh access and local GUI desktop working for my Linux > machine quite well. I also have ssh access to a Linux machine on > the Microsoft Azure service working. > > > > Before I go down the path of trying to get remote desktop access to > the GUI, does this actually work. > > > > The article at Linux - Microsoft Azure > <https://portal.azure.com/#@kellykellford.onmicrosoft.com/resource/subscript > ions/968d4c66-18eb-48df-87b5-6d1918a03749/resourceGroups/linux/providers/Mic > rosoft.Compute/virtualMachines/linux/connect> has details on what > you need to do to connect to the GUI for a machine running on > Azure. I am hoping to use the Windows RDP client to connect and > just get the Gnome audio. I know it won't be perfect. > > > > If this does actually work, does anyone know the syntax to tell the > XRDP service on the Linux machine to use Gnome as the desktop > session? The article shows this command but it is for a different > desktop. > > > > Tell xrdp what desktop environment to use when you start your > session. Configure xrdp to use xfce as your desktop environment as > follows: > > > > echo xfce4-session >~/.xsession > > Restart the xrdp service for the changes to take effect as follows: > > sudo service xrdp restart > > > > Also, thanks for the answers to my other questions here. I haven't > contributed much here but will offer one tidbit, on the off chance > anyone here is trying to use Microsoft Teams on Linux. You have to > start the Linux version of Teams with the additional command line of > -force-renderer-accessibility. This instructs Chrome and software > using Chromium, to ensure things go through the accessibility API. > If you don't, Orca won't read anything when Teams loads. If you do > add this, Teams works fairly similar to how it does on other > platforms. > > > > I know I do not post here often so in full disclosure, my day job > is working for Microsoft running a service known as the enterprise > Disability Answer Desk that works to resolve accessibility issues > for business, government, education and other enterprise customers. > I've wanted to understand how our technology works on Linux, where > we have it available. > > > > Kelly > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list