Comment 59 for bug 1251281

Dmitry Shachnev, thanks for your quick response.

>"Christopher, why do you think this is a bug in gnome-panel?"

I'll let you make the call on what is the root cause package.

Despite this, as per https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel gnome-session-flashback is provided by gnome-panel (not gnome-session), which this report was supposed to be scoped to how xrdp'ing (among other protocols mentioned) doesn't properly present a GUI when using gnome-session-flashback (and Unity). What I can speak to is the issue that I thought this bug report was scoped to still isn't addressed.

However, if you find that this report should be re-scoped, I'm happy to file a new report on it.

"I see that gnome-panel is not even started in your screenshot."

I'm not sure what you are talking about. To clarify what you are seeing, it is my host computer (whose environment is irrelevant, could be Windows, etc., but happens to be using Ubuntu) using a remote desktop client (Remmina), remoting into a gnome-session-flashback environment (the horizontal black/white lines, with a white diagonal line).

>"I don't have the environment needed for reproducing this so can't look at it"

Have you ever tried virtualization with Virtualbox? It's available via the Ubuntu repositories, and works quite well. Also, one may setup a temporary live environment as noted in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1251281/comments/58 .

", but patches are welcome."

As I'm not a developer by profession, nor have that as a background, this will unfortunately not be coming from me.

Ryan Tandy, thanks for testing to this issue, it is greatly appreciated.

>"Whether or not this works with xrdp probably depends on how your session is set up."

Hmmm. All I did was a default install from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ , install xrdp and gnome-session-flashback, log into gnome-session-flashback and attempt an RDP.

>" I just tried installing gnome-session-flashback and xrdp on the vivid daily CD; the default configuration does nothing, but the following ~/.xsession: env DESKTOP_SESSION="gnome-flashback-metacity" XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="GNOME-Flashback:Unity" gnome-session --session=gnome-flashback --disable-acceleration-check does load the session. (but the keyboard layout seems wrong somehow... :/)"

Unfortunately, I'm not following you here. Could you please provide this information in a keyboard click-for-click fashion?

As well, just to clarify, making the modifications you advised above allows you to see an actual desktop GUI (icons, windows, etc.)?

>"If xrdp needs to be adjusted to set this up by default, or documented somehow, maybe that should be a separate bug against xrdp."

I already started a support article on xrdp at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/xrdp . Once I can reproduce your results, I'm happy to put it up there in a keyboard click-for-click fashion.