RDP thinclient with xubuntu 18.04 and xfreerdp

1. Download xubuntu 18.04 (32 or 64bit version)
2. Install it, and during installation create a new user as required, username must be uterm or my scripts will not work
3. Boot your installation, upgrade the system and then
   sudo apt-get install openssh-server freerdp2-x11
4. Open a terminal and execute the following commands:

   cd
   rm .xprofile .xsessionrc
   [ -d pterm ] || mkdir pterm
   cd pterm
   rm 10-autologonpterm.conf.txt xsessionrc.txt .myptermid countdown.py 2> /dev/null
   rm power-button-off.png ptermlogo.png 2> /dev/null
   wget http://www.giovanni.panozzo.it/guides/pterm/10-autologonpterm.conf.txt
   wget http://www.giovanni.panozzo.it/guides/pterm/xprofile.txt
   wget http://www.giovanni.panozzo.it/guides/pterm/ptermconman.txt
   wget http://www.giovanni.panozzo.it/guides/pterm/ptermconfig.txt
   wget http://www.giovanni.panozzo.it/guides/pterm/ptermlogo.png
   wget http://www.giovanni.panozzo.it/guides/pterm/power-button-off.png
   mv xprofile.txt ../.xprofile
   mv ptermconman.txt ptermconman.py
   mv ptermconfig.txt .config
   chmod 755 ptermconman.py
   

   And then (this requires to enter the uterm user password)

   sudo mv 10-autologonpterm.conf.txt /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/10-autologonpterm.conf
   

5. Now edit the ptermconman.py file and customize it at the beginning.
6. Reboot, and you should get an authentication prompt for RDP (NLA) credentials.

• You can press Sift+Win+M to get a full desktop when the logon applet is displayed. Disable this function by setting cfg_exittodesktop to 0 in ptermconman.py
• Unfortunately we can't know if xfreerdp has failed and why, because it has not a goot and consistent exit code status table. In case of connection failure, we are unable to show message like "invalid password" or "connection refused".

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