Application Scaling issues with XRDP connected to Rocky Linux 8

[t3ch-aar0n]

I am migrating from CentOS to Rocky Linux 8 and trying to set up a RDP connection using the documentation available online. I can connect, but I am having issue with open application windows not scaling properly: the contents skew unless the window is sized to specific proportions. I can't immediately find any documentation related to this issue when searching online and was hoping that someone in the community might be able help.

Currently I am connecting to Rocky Linux 8.10 through the Windows App on a MacBookPro running MacOS Monterey 12.7.6. I had not previous issue with CentOS 7 and see the same behavior when connecting through the Remote Desktop Connection App running in Parallels (Windows 10) from the same machine.

[matt335672]

Interesting pictures, @t3ch-aar0n

I'm unable to reproduce this on an up-to-date installation of Alma 8.10 using GNOME with client-side resizing. xrdp version is 0.10.4-2.

A couple of possibilities:

• The application window appears to be the only thing that is skewed. That would seem to point to an issue with either the desktop environment or the X server, as xrdp is unaware of application boundaries.
• You could try installing xorgxrdp and using that. That will use the Xorg server backend rather than the Xvnc server backend.
• Try setting up another user account with a blank configuration and see if the same issue affects that.