Same issue still exists in 14.10, in my case with xrdp. Actually, it appears that neither startlxde nor startlubuntu exists in 14.10. Putting 'lxsession -e LXDE -s Lubuntu' at the end of /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh (in place of the '. /etc/X11/Xsession' line) does work for xrdp.
Same issue still exists in 14.10, in my case with xrdp. Actually, it appears that neither startlxde nor startlubuntu exists in 14.10. Putting 'lxsession -e LXDE -s Lubuntu' at the end of /etc/xrdp/ startwm. sh (in place of the '. /etc/X11/Xsession' line) does work for xrdp.