Using NX with Unity in 11.10

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I'm trying to use nx to login remotely to my desktop. But when I do, because of unity I get the following screen:

My NX Client

It looks like all I can do is access the file browser from here. I tried following the instructions in this post, but they don't work (presumably because I don't have the necessary gnome stuff). How do I launch the unity-2d "session" on 11.10?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 24 '11 at 01:26

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You use gnome-session --session=ubuntu-2d as the command in your NX client.

answered Oct 24 '11 at 01:26

Jo-Erlend Schinstad

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As I said in my question above, doing this does not work. – Kurtis Nusbaum Oct 24 '11 at 01:29
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You know, I'm not the kind of guy who guesses without saying so. Before I wrote that answer, I tested it myself. Perhaps you should consider updating your answer to provide more details? – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Oct 24 '11 at 03:29
Thank you for your patience. I tried it again and it's working now. I'd reversed the phrases and had typed in 2d-ubuntu instead of ubuntu-2d – Kurtis Nusbaum Oct 24 '11 at 04:07
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Glad to hear that :) – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Oct 24 '11 at 04:27
I wasn't sure where in the NX client to enter this command. See the following answer for more details: http://askubuntu.com/questions/69522/what-command-is-used-to-start-unity-2d – Ben McCann May 01 '12 at 16:43

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 26 '13 at 12:16

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The problem is described on this nomachine webpage.

I had to check which sessions are available for gnome-session in /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions and modify the session startup (--session=gnome-classic changed to --session=gnome).

edited Aug 26 '13 at 12:16

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answered Aug 26 '13 at 11:58

Marcin

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Using NX with Unity in 11.10

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