So, we have downloaded a fresh debian 12. no desktop environment, just system utils and the bare bones machine is alive

Grimy Shit

For some reason, sudo isnt installed by default.

  1. su -
  2. apt-get install sudo -y
  3. usermod -aG sudo yourusername

AwesomeWM

  • Go get your graphical interface Awesome WM sudo apt-get install awesome sudo apt-get install xorg change the rc.lua config file to have a symbolic link mkdir ~/.config/awesome sudo link /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua sudo chown myusername ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua

XRDP

sudo apt-get install xrdp -y check if it worked sudo systemctl status xrdp add their certificate sudo adduser xrdp ssl-cert

Firewall

sudo apt-get ufw sudo ufw allow 3389/tcp sudo ufw reload

Get IP and RDP in

ip a get that ip address

Connect to Wifi

nmcli OR on a windows machine, if you want network profiles, run the command:

  1. netsh wlan show profiles
  2. netsh wlan export profile THENETWORKNAME

Add Friends

if you try on multiple devices to RDP on the system on the same account, one of the devices will be booted. We must each connect on different accounts lets make those different accounts.