NVIDIA X Server Settings wont start when remoting in from Windows RDP

Graphics / Linux Linux
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FYI: nvidia-bug-report.log file size is too big for upload. Here it is on dropbox: Dropbox - File Deleted
Nvidia Drivers: 440, installed through the Ubuntu Additional Drivers UI.
6 GPU system where everything works fine for my 3D blender rendering even when remoting in.

When I remote into my Ubuntu 20.04 machines using Window’s RDP (xRDP is installed & using Gnome desktop), Nvidia X Server Settings will not open and only shows me this blank window:
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It works fine when I log in locally. Even if I log in locally and then remote in, the remote session still has blank X Server Settings, with the local behaving properly.

When I try to run “startx” here’s what happens:

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Anyone got any suggestions?

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@timbarton411 have you got any luck on figuring out the issue? I met the same issue.
Thanks!

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xrdpserver is a virtual xserver running in software. If you want to access the gpu, you’ll have to set up xrdp to use x11vnc to connect to the real xserver running on the nvidia gpu or use virtualgl.