Hi @Ryan, Thanks for advice. Unfortunately, fixing only gnome-session won't fix gnome-flashback.
Actually I've already fixed it in my PPA (ppa:eugenesan/ppa). Among the changes are: 1. Migration from metacity to xfwm4. 2. Backporting and tweaking of: gnome-desktop3, gnome-panel, gnome-session, indicator-appmenu, ubuntu-themes. 3. Introduction of optional but highly recommended: gnome-wndow-applets, cardapio and gnome-flashback-desktop. debdiffs and new packages are available in my PPA. However, due to the nature and the amount of changes, we need maintainers of Ubuntu-UX and/or gnome-flashback(panel) to step in. In mean time, anyone interested in "unity-2d" like environment for light/virtualized/NX/X/VNC desktop environments, can add my PPA and install gnome-flashback-desktop. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1251281 Title: gnome-flashback (metacity) fails to start without hardware acceleration, cloud/remote environments (Forwarded-X/XRDP/VNC/NX/X2GO/Chromoting) Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: When trying to launch gnome-flashback (metacity) session from XRDP/VNC/NX/X2GO/Chromoting it fails with diagnostics in log: >gnome-session-is-accelerated: No composite extension. >gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256 >gnome-session-is-accelerated: No composite extension. >gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256 >** (process:11622): WARNING **: software acceleration check failed: Child process exited with code 1 When starting manually gnome-panel, metacity, nautilus and other components from .xsession - it works normally. Looks like - unnecessary check performed (and failed). This breaks gnome-flashback, breaking upgrade path from previous LTS and removing most sane option for cloud environments! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1251281/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
