Comment 48 for bug 1251281

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Michael Plotkin (plotkin) wrote : Re: [Bug 1251281] Re: gnome-session-flashback/Unity fails to start without hardware acceleration in cloud/remote environments (Forwarded-X/XRDP/VNC/NX/X2GO/Chromoting)

Thank you Ryan for helping to resolve this problem. I've been waiting
anxiously for this problem being fixed because it's the main reason I
cannot start using 14.04 (and have to use 12.04) on a lot of systems.

I have a question - do you see any problems using original NX software
with this solution. For mostly historical reasons I've been using original
NX software (NX 3 from NoMachine) and have their client software
installed on quite a few computers.

Thank you,
Michael.

On 06.03.15 14:38, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> I am happily running GNOME Flashback with the FreeNX server, and nx-libs
> from the X2Go stable PPA, on multiple Trusty terminal servers and it has
> been quite stable. The gnome-session --disable-acceleration-check option
> is needed, and also bug 1416081 has to be fixed to stop unity-settings-
> daemon from crashing. I have uploaded all the necessary patches to
> ppa:rtandy/flashback and attached them to these bugs. In the PPA I also
> patched gnome-session-flashback to use --disable-acceleration-check, but
> it's not really necessary -- just for symmetry :).
>
> Attached is the FreeNX config file I use. Note it relies on the Upstart
> session job to pass "--disable-acceleration-check" to gnome-session. For
> X2Go, /usr/bin/x2goruncommand has to be adjusted similarly; I will
> follow up to their tracker (http://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-
> bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774) soon.
>
> I hope these patches can be considered for vivid, and maybe for
> trusty/utopic SRU as well. Thanks for reading!
>
> ** Bug watch added: bugs.x2go.org/ #774
> http://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774
>
> ** Attachment added: "/etc/nxserver/node.conf.d/20_gnome-flashback.conf for freenx-server"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1251281/+attachment/4336491/+files/20_gnome-flashback.conf
>