Does this answer your question? Can't enable Enhanced Mode for Ubuntu 19.04 in Hyper-V on Windows 10 Pro

Provide the output of sudo systemctl status xrdp for us

Unit xrdp.service could not be found.

linux-azure provided no relief.

For that feature, the Guest machine must be a Generation 2 machine and then you can select Enhanced Session.

Configuration version 9.0, Generation 2

@geoB - Install XRDP…Once you do since EnhancedSessionTransportType is properly configured you should be able to enable Enhanced Session

@Ramhound sudo apt install xrdp is insufficient. Saw a suggestion to add -y but that didn't help. Please advise.

For later: Hyper-V versions change with Windows versions and is much better on Windows 11 than Windows 10. That is where I use Hyper-V.

@John - Ummm, I can’t find any evidence there is any difference between Hyper-V on Windows 10 and Windows 11, and even if there is a difference what does that have anything to do with the authors problem?

I have studied Hyper-V and from what I see in Microsoft articles, the Hyper-V version (xxx.xx) is different as Windows progresses (version yyy.yyy). Here is one such source: community.spiceworks.com/topic/2166610-changing-hyper-v-vers‌​ion .. I was speaking of the hypervisor version

@John - Your source is from 4 years before Windows 11 was released and is about Windows Server 2012 which based on Windows 8 not Windows 10. In fact that discussion thread has nothing to do with Windows 10 in the slightest. You did the author should use a Generation 2 Hyper-V when in fact they already configured their VM to be one.

@geoB - Post your xrdp.ini for us

@Ramhound If I could install xrdp I would have an ini file to share. However... /etc/xrdp does not exist. As above, I tried to install with sudo apt install xrdp but was not successful; seems like some parameter is required but remains elusive.

@geoB - All you said was, “it didn’t work”, which I thought meant while you installed XRDP Enhanced Session continued to be unavailable. Going to need a little more than what you have provided

You probably need to run sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies -y before running sudo apt install xrdp -y

Installing xfce4 et al has made no difference. Enhanced sessions remains grayed out.

I suspect the problem is on the Windows side. Tried installing Ubuntu server 20.04 - no change in enhanced sessions. Still gray.

I'm convinced it's Windows: just tried VirtualBox with guest addition. Supposed to allow mouse to capture screen. Doesn't. Will let you know if I figure this out.

@geoB - Yet I am convinced based on at least 4 dozen articles on getting Enhanced Sessions working with Ubuntu that XRDP is required. Is there a reason your not simply using WSL?

I'm just a hobbyist who fiddles with creating websites for nonprofits. I've used VMs in the past as a practice playground to make it look like I knew what I was doing. Very nerdish fun for a retired geek. For whatever reason I cannot create a useful environment either with Hyper-V or VirtualBox. Can't copy & paste text from server to my Windows machine. Oh well. Has to be this 4 yr old laptop & USB mouse + ?.