Docs: signing in over RDP as steamos reaches a Plasma desktop (verified)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -27,8 +27,13 @@ Remote Desktop never asks for a user or password. It warns that the certificate
(`www.xrdp.org`) can't be verified. After **Yes**, xrdp shows its own "Login to
frame" box with the username blank. Any user but `steamos` gets "User does not
exist, or could not be authenticated". Signing in as `steamos` with the
Developer Mode password is still unchecked: the Frame's log showed no
successful xrdp login up to that date.
Developer Mode password opens a Plasma (X11) desktop within about 6 seconds.
It's a new session on display `:10`, separate from what the headset shows,
and it uses about 1.3 GB of the Frame's memory. Closing Remote Desktop leaves
it running, and the next sign-in reconnects to it. To end it, find its
session with `loginctl list-sessions` over SSH (its leader is `xrdp-sesexec`)
and run `loginctl terminate-session <id>`; the headset's own session keeps
running.
**Recommendation for A:** start with Steam Link for macOS, because Valve
documents it. Use Windows App (RDP) when you want a proper Linux desktop on the
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@@ -231,9 +231,9 @@ launching anything on the headset.
**Verified 2026-09-30:** Windows 11 Pro 25H2 (build 26200) against a Frame on
BUILD_ID 20260925.6191901. The script was used to install Frame Control 0.4.0,
connect it to the Frame and reproduce a Remote Desktop report from
screenshots. It also took Windows-side logs, and `frame-key` left
`authorized_keys` byte-for-byte as it was.
connect it to the Frame and follow Remote Desktop through to the Frame's
desktop ([what it does](streaming.md#a-see-and-control-the-frame-from-the-mac)).
`frame-key` left `authorized_keys` byte-for-byte as it was.
## Owned media player