xrdp

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2016–2023), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with xrdp, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Setting up remote desktop took days of fixes and workarounds found online2023-09-28
Black screen after login, password prompts, and shift key triggers caps lock2023-09-28
Getting display scaling to work was a huge struggle2023-08-14
Can't easily drop into an existing session, and audio lags and stutters when much of the screen changes2022-08-20
Documentation and install scripts are horribly bad, requiring manual config edits2020-09-15
Displays get swapped when using multi-head with a Linux server over RDP2020-06-12
Constantly hits problems starting sessions, keyboard layouts, and black screens2020-06-11
Frequent bugs in display assignment on logon and a buggy login screen2020-06-11
Configuration file is messy and some settings are counter-intuitive to set up2016-05-21