This is interesting and frustrating. It’s something of a mess.
First, i was simply wrong, I assumed you had to remove the password to auto-login (some distro’s you do apparently). So I was able to put the password back on to the underlying auto-login linux account.
Having done that I thought I would be good in terms of the overall process, I cleared the dummy account and put the same account name (still unclear if it connected) as the remote desk user with the same passsword.
Preseto… didn’t work. Hmm… RDP not running. Enable. Reboot, didn’t work… it’s not enabled again. Enable, RDP – worked. Reboot – not running. Double check it’s set to restart on reboot.
It may be related to this, though I don’t know what it means:
Mar 04 11:56:32 aurora.leferguson.com krdpserver[2752]: qt.dbus.integration: QDBusConnection: error: could not send message to service "org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop" path "/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop" interface "org.freedesktop.portal.RemoteDesktop" member "NotifyKeyboardKeycode": Marshalling failed: Invalid object path passed in arguments
So turned off auto-login (leaving the password), turned on RDP, rebooted (so at this point with password, with RDP enabled, without auto-login, so basically defaults):
Now RDP won’t restart. When I log into the attached monitor it’s disabled. Enabled, changed the slider a bit (to make sure the apply button would come up just in case), applied. Rebooted…
Disabled again.
Still getting that error above. So it’s now apparently just broken, but in a different way.
I think this is just… immature. And messed up.
Thank you for trying to help.