How to speed up Ubuntu, Remote Control generally and XRDP RDP particularly

In this tutorial video i demonstrate step by step how you can speed up Ubuntu LTS, so the main 3 of 18.04, 2.04 and 22.04. It should also speed up remote control packages like TeamViewer, NoMachine, VNC & RDP (a.k.a XRDP). It does this by tuning off the ubuntu animations. It then specifically looks at the XRDP package (The Linux version of RDP) by reducing the number of colors transmitted from over 4 billion per pixel to about 30000, a reduction of some 100.00 times. this is done by amending the main XRDP configuration file of
These changes work on a Local PC or even a VPS.

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Turning Animations off in Ubuntu
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If for any reason you would like to turn these Animations, effects and transitions back on again the command is :

Reduce the number of colors that XRDP has to transmit.
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Again, If for any reason you would return to the full colours being transmitted by XRDP :

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[nandansubramanya]

Another thing which can make a big difference is the settings in the RDP client.
In Win10 Remote Desktop Connection, there are many options in the "Show Options" -> "Experience"tab. That can make it faster too

[gyzmoduck]

Good video. Music was over powering and your voice was a bit lower than normal. The commands worked great! It's still not as responsive as I'd like but it's a lot more manageable.

[pitapitabread]

you do Not have to reboot to apply settings for xrdp. just stop and restart the xrdp service program. also: how do you turn off compositing and fancy 3D graphics effects?

[nouasabdelatif]

I installed Ubuntu 22.04 on oracle rdp the exact way you showed in your video i couldn't find Ubuntu software center so i deleted the instance and re created a new one with 20.04 but same problem. When i try to install through the terminal it always fails any solution?

[Pinchfire]

Manged to follow all your steps and created everything as you described it in both videos. A small question... When browsing the shapes in the first video... You can select AMD or Intel instead of Ampere and they seem to give more CPUs and space. Is that correct or I saw it wrong? Otherwise excellent job! You're a credit to our human race! Keep it up and don't give up what you do!

P.S. I'm quite the novice, so could you please explain to me in simple terms what can I do with the new remotely controlled system and disk space? Can I upload files there, can I stream from there or smth. Thank you in advance!

[simonhuang]

Great tutorial. However, after running the comments in this video, the RD client woudl stuck at "configuring the remote PC". aRDP connection via SSH is OK, but very slow.

[Wonka_Tonka]

could you please add a video on how to change to XFCE or LXQt . i would think LXQt would make it feel even faster

[nouasabdelatif]

It helps a little bit but still lagy like watching a video is impossible (oracle rdp)
Is it normal that using rdp consumes so much more data?

[leovanvelzen]

Good tutorial, but to all the youtubes, please stop the fade in fade out grab music and so on stick to the content, sorry i had to say