NoMachine NX remote sessions doesn't get correct theme

[Björn Harrtell]

As per request in #409621 I'm opening this new bug report.

The issue is that remote sessions to a NoMachine NX Server doesn't get the correct theme.

This has been present since release of Jaunty and is also present using Karmic and libxklavier15 4.0-4ubuntu5.

Running gnome-settings-deamon in a terminal on the remote desktop yields:

Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1037.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1037.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1037.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1037.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":1037.0".
The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 105 error_code 1 request_code 150 minor_code 8)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Reportedly there are two workarounds:

1. Create ~/.gtkrc-2.0 with lines 'gtk-theme-name="Human"' and 'gtk-icon-theme-name = "Human"' which forces the Human theme of course.

2. Downgrade to libxklavier15 3.9-0ubuntu1

I've verified workaround 1

The issue is also described in length here:
http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1236402

[Björn Harrtell (bjorn-wololo)]

Perhaps the issue can be isolated to libxklavier15, but haven't confirmation about the second workaround which implies that libxklavier15 is to blame.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported, but please feel free to report any other bugs you find.