A shell script to setup Remote Desktop in Fedora 23/24

setup-xrdp.sh

#!/bin/bash
#------------------------------------------------
# Setup Fedora 23/24 with xRDP via XFCE4
#------------------------------------------------
# Original version at https://goo.gl/VL4mzQ
#

# Install XFCE4 desktop
sudo dnf -y --refresh groupinstall xfce-desktop

# Install TigerVNC and xRDP
sudo dnf -y install tigervnc tigervnc-server xrdp

# Open standard RDP ports in Firewall
sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=3389/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3389/tcp

# Enable xRDP and session-manager
sudo systemctl enable xrdp.service
sudo systemctl enable xrdp-sesman

# Start xRDP and session-manager
sudo systemctl start xrdp-sesman
sudo systemctl start xrdp.service

# set XFCE4 desktop for RDP connections
cat > ~/.xsession << EOF
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
xfce4-session
EOF

sudo chmod +x ~/.xsession
sudo systemctl restart xrdp.service

echo "Use 'vncpasswd' to create a VNC user specific password"
echo "Note that when using Remmina, use 16 bpp color depth."
echo "Other color depth settings will most likely fail when connceting"