At my university, I have a Xubuntu workstation, on which all my simulations and other scientific applications/calcs are run. When I am physically present in the office, I use the i3 window manager, which suits my keyboard-centric workflow.
When I need to connect my SP3 to my office workstation, there are occasions on which I need X-window support. I don't have admin access on staff machine, so installing nomachineNX/FreeNX/other NX variants is out. Even if I get ICT to do it on one machine, I can't connect from say, a library machine running win7.
I have tried the solution posted here Can I access Ubuntu from Windows remotely? . Although it worked for a few weeks when my workstation updated to a newer kernel and in another update xrdp also got updated, something broke, and systemd would not let xrdp service start. I then read online about the incompatibilities of systemd and xrdp. It also seems that there is a related project x11rdp-o-matic, which provides an automated configuration for directed sound/monitor config etc. But it looks like the maintainer of that project also abandoned this due to frustration with above-mentioned systemd issues.
I'd ideally like to connect to an i3 session if possible (or at-least have a reliable workaround for the xfce connection issues described above)
