Comment 7 for bug 1241958

I can confirm the same issue. Not quite unrelated I noticed that running "startxfce4" from xrdp or X2go also doesn't quite work and is missing some things such as themes for one. My guess is that someone decided that if you need remote desktop you should enable it through LightDM and so there is probably some code in there which handles this missing functionality. However, some corporations don't allow opening it up like that. Xrdp is the only officially supported way to connect at my company so we're using the workaround for now.