XRDP

[simoncn]

I have installed Debian Jessie and I am seeing the same problem as you.

It appears the default behaviour of XRDP has changed between Debian Wheezy and Debian Jessie. In Wheezy, the default login connects to your console desktop session (session id 0). In Jessie, the default login connects to a new desktop session (session id 10). The MinimServer tray icon appears only on the console desktop session 0 and this is why you aren't seeing it when you login to Jessie using XRDP.

The solution is to install another package named x11vnc on the Pi. See this post for installation and setup instructions. No change is needed to your current XRDP installation. When you login to Remote Desktop Connection from Windows, you need to select 'console' from the drop-down list instead of 'sesman-Xvnc'.

While working on this, I noticed a problem with MinimServer being started as username 'root' when using automatic startup instead of username 'pi'. This problem is fixed in the new download minimserver-0.8.3f-linux-armhf.tar.gz.

There is also a problem with the size of the minim icon. This is fixed at 24 x 24 pixels and doesn't fill the default space of 36 x 36 pixels. This appears to be a Java issue and I am trying to find out if there is any way I can work around this. It looks ugly but doesn't seem to cause any functional problems.