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12.10 NX Remote Desktop

Asked by adam jvok

Upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10.

Using nomachine.com NX for remote desktop.

Both local & remote now 12.10. [was working finr with both on 12.04]

The remote dekstop is displayed on the local client, but it is missing the Laucher and the top bar/menu (with the clock etc).

I recall this being an issue a with earlier versions that was solved by editting the file /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg and setting:

CommandStartGnome "/etc/X11/Xsession 'gnome-session --session=ubuntu-2d'"

.. but in 12.10 we don't seem to have "2d" anymore.

Anyone any ideas for a fix/wrokaround?

Thanks for any help.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

2D was removed from Quantal.

What are you connecting to the remote OS to achieve? There may be a sleeker solution.

Thanks

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adam jvok (ajvok1) said : 		#2

> What are you connecting to the remote OS to achieve? There may be a sleeker solution.

1. Help a remote user when needed, by sharing his desktop.

2. General use of a remote desktop for myself. Usually someelese is logged into that remote machine at the same time, so I rely on NX to give me a separte desktop session from that user.

I'm certainly willing to try alternatives, if they can do both these things.
The first doesn't seem much of a problem (I've seen non-NX ways to do this) but I don't kow have to get the second to work with Ubuntu (well, 12.04 anyway) other than via NX. And now that doesn't work with NX in 12.10 either.

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adam jvok (ajvok1) said : 		#3

The solution seems to be to install gnome-session-fallback and then change /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg so that:

CommandStartGnome "/etc/gdm/Xsession gnome-session-fallback"

No unity, but it works.