That was a great idea you had Aritchie to try under the Desktop Edition session.
Let's try that again with a little more details. Can you try to log in the desktop edition session and start in a terminal:
$ unity-2d-launcher
Do nothing else, try to logout and report back here what you see.
Now try this other thing. Log in the desktop edition session and start in a terminal:
$ unity-2d-spread
That was a great idea you had Aritchie to try under the Desktop Edition session.
Let's try that again with a little more details. Can you try to log in the desktop edition session and start in a terminal:
$ unity-2d-launcher
Do nothing else, try to logout and report back here what you see.
Now try this other thing. Log in the desktop edition session and start in a terminal:
$ unity-2d-spread
Do nothing else, try to logout and report back here what you see.