cannot disable Remote Desktop in Ubuntu 22.04

[Marcin]

1. Go to Settings
2. sharing
3. Disable Remote Desktop and Sharing
4. Restart PC

problem: Remote Desktop is enabled. seems to be connected with RDP

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Marcin (marcinw2)]

Dear Bot, it's unknown, which package it is related to. Looking for service
or package was first thing I have done.
Regards
Marcin

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> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a
> specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu
> in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source
> packages so that people interested in the package can find the bugs
> about it. You can find some hints about determining what package your
> bug might be about at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage.
> You might also ask for help in the #ubuntu-bugs irc channel on
> Libera.chat.
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> Bug description:
> 1. Go to Settings
> 2. sharing
> 3. Disable Remote Desktop and Sharing
> 4. Restart PC
>
> problem: Remote Desktop is enabled. seems to be connected with RDP
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[rewks (rewks)]

I noticed this too, somewhat annoying when trying to minimise listening services. Marcin, I have managed to work around this issue with the following command:

sudo unlink /etc/systemd/user/gnome-session.target.wants/gnome-remote-desktop.service

Now when enabling/disabling the remote desktop service a symlink is instead created/removed at

~/.config/systemd/user/gnome-session.target.wants/gnome-remote-desktop.service

and as such the user's on/off preference is respected.

[Samuel Sherman (nuttergabario)]

I uninstalled gnome-remote-desktop and it seems to be disabled, but I haven't actually checked the network connections.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for the bug report, is that the same as bug #1969619?

[Pascal Nowack (pnowack)]

Yeah, this issue here is a duplicate of the bug mentioned in comment 6. Jeremy submitted a patch, which sufficiently fixed the issue in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/1286 (it should technically check for other aspects too), but for now it is sufficient.
Follow-ups should use an upstream report or MR for this.

Just to note: What people confuses here is the state of what the switch represents and therefore leads to the wrong conclusions above.
Just because g-r-d is running, does not mean it listens on some ports for connections, nor that it starts any of the server backends (RDP or VNC).
Before Jeremys change, the state in g-c-c represented, whether the g-r-d service is enabled and running. However, the backends have their own 'enabled' settings (default: false ('off')). Also, the RDP backend won't be started by g-r-d, when the server cert and private keyfile are missing.
These are generated, when the switch in g-c-c is switched to 'on'.

The reason, why this issue was not apparent initially was that due a recent systemd change, g-r-d did not start automatically, when the service was enabled.
This was fixed in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/commit/7f4ef31fd380dffc108e5c7f77c81fbaa271ec7b, but lead to this issue here.