Who needs proprietary OSes and CALs to use a terminal server? Not this guy!
Here’s the guidelines I use when standing up a new terminal server with Xfce, because Gnome operates too slowly and is bloated. This is my file named el7ts201.txt.
# How to install terminal server sudo su - sed -i -r -e '/10\.200/s/^[^#]/#/;' -e '/^\&/s/^/#/;' /etc/rsyslog.conf systemctl restart rsyslog # install epel # reference: https://www.tecmint.com/how-to-enable-epel-repository-for-rhel-centos-6-5/ cd wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm yum -y install epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm # install xrdp yum -y groupinstall xfce ; yum -y install xrdp tigervnc-server patch xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin ; yum -y remove gnome-session # install fonts yum -y install gnu-free-*-fonts open-sans-fonts libXfont xorg-x11-font* tf=/usr/lib/firewalld/services/xrdp.xml touch "${tf}" ; chmod 0644 "${tf}" ; restorecon "${tf}" ; chown root.root "${tf}" cat <<'EOF' 1> "${tf}" <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <service> <short>ms-wbt</short> <description>Terminal services</description> <port protocol="tcp" port="3389"/> </service> EOF firewall-cmd --reload firewall-cmd --add-service=xrdp --permanent firewall-cmd --reload ############################################## # add XFCE to the /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients file tf=/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients cp -p "${tf}" "${tf}.$( date "+%s" )" cat <<'EOFXCLIENTS' 1> "${tf}" #!/bin/bash STARTXFCE="$(type -p startxfce4)" # check to see if the user has a preferred desktop PREFERRED=XFCE exec "$STARTXFCE" # We should also support /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.d scripts XCLIENTS_D=/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.d if [ "$#" -eq 1 ] && [ -x "$XCLIENTS_D/Xclients.$1.sh" ]; then exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSH_AGENT $XCLIENTS_D/Xclients.$1.sh" fi # Failsafe. # these files are left sitting around by TheNextLevel. rm -f $HOME/Xrootenv.0 EOFXCLIENTS ############################################### systemctl enable xrdp xrdp-sesman systemctl start xrdp xrdp-sesman echo done # Next steps # apply valid ssl certificate