Hey all,

 

New to Armbian, installed to an Orange Pi 5.

 

Installed XRDP - works fine in root (desktop shows) but if I try to do it as a user I just get a black screen with cursor.

 

From searching I can see posts about already being logged in as a user already, and therefore black for privacy but I've not logged in as the user prior?

 

Cant find anything really conclusive explaining how to resolve this

 

Also even in root if I get logged out of desktop (RDP session still active, i.e. desktop lock screen) my root password doesn't work.  Password is clearly not wrong

try 

sudo systemctl status xrdp - should be active

if not, try 

sudo systemctl enable xrdp
sudo systemctl restart xrdp

or

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3389/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload
sudo firewall-cmd --list-ports

based on another post, you need to  install xorgxrdp as well!