xfce4 is indeed used for the remote connection. Weather this is the only desktop manager depends on your config of course, but the default desktop manager of Ubuntu (Unity) is or was not working with xrdp. This is not the only place where I have seen issue with this “new” desktop manager though, so xfce4 was a fallback option.

Jul 01, 2019 projects:panel-plugins:xfce4-hardware-monitor-plugin [Xfce This plugin is a port of the venerable GNOME 2 Hardware Monitor to XFCE4 (originally written by Ole Laursen), so that I could get at a network bandwidth graph. It can display various system stats (CPU, filesystem and network usage among others) in graphs, visualisations or with text. Xfce - Users - Ethernet/Wireless Network Manager On 19/11/2010 14:41, Rich Shepard wrote: > Does xfce have a network manager tool equivalent to the ubuntus nm-applet? > On my new Dell portable I have no problems remotely connecting to the 'Net > when using the ethernet port, but I've yet to get the built in wireless > working. Using iwconfig/iwlist I can see and connect to a wireless AP, > but I > cannot always obtain an IP lease running dhcpcd.

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Jul 01, 2019 projects:panel-plugins:xfce4-hardware-monitor-plugin [Xfce This plugin is a port of the venerable GNOME 2 Hardware Monitor to XFCE4 (originally written by Ole Laursen), so that I could get at a network bandwidth graph. It can display various system stats (CPU, filesystem and network usage among others) in graphs, visualisations or with text.

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Xfce4 Desktop Environment and X Server for Ubuntu on WSL 2