Comment 14 for bug 846407

Here's a workaround that gives me Unity 2d with apparently all the controls/clock on the top right and Unity's left side strip of icons, all while connecting from Windows. It's the most functionality I've been able to get with xrdp since installing Oneiric.

Do Fabien's fix as mentioned above, namely

$ echo "gnome-session --session=ubuntu-2d" > .xsession

AND

install x11rdp and using that as the x server as instructed here: http://scarygliders.net/2011/09/23/install-xrdp-and-x11rdp-the-comprehensive-howto-for-ubuntu-and-debian-based-systems/

Hope that helps some of you.