So am I understanding correctly that the window manager appears to be
starting correctly but is simply not showing its menu?  Or does the
window manager not start at all (that is, are you just seeing the
standard dithered gray X11 background with the X-shaped cursor?)

On 6/28/12 10:48 PM, Shanon Loughton wrote:
> K lets see how I go  with this one.
> 
> Hi All
> 
> Ive got the latest builds and trying to get Ubuntu desktop showing fully
> on the client.  I only see the background, and the cursor in the
> TurboVNC session. Right click doesnt do anything, no keyboard shortcuts
> do anything, and the Unity menu doesnt show, nor does the Gnome classic
> menu show when I switch between those on the server.  On my server
> desktop I have one desktop shortcut icon for the terminal application. 
> On the client F8 works I can change settings on TurboVNC there.
> 
> To get the desktop icons showing the workaround appears to be:
> On the server
>  - kill the vncserver for display :1
>  - change the desktop background
>  - restart the vncserver
> On the client
>  - connect from TurboVNC client or java client and the desktop icons now
> appear.
> The unity menu or gnome classic menu still do not show.
> 
> My Environment:
>  - Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit on both client and server physical machines, both
> intel 64 bit cpu, server has an Nvidia with pbuffer support.
>  - turbovnc-1.1_amd64.deb on both client and server
>  - VirtualGL-2.3._amd64.deb on server
>  - glxinfo on server shows glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation, p in
> the 'drw typ' column
>  - vglserver_config all usual, no limits in place
>  - On the server I tried with gnome3 classic (installed in Ubuntu as
> gnome-shell package), unity (by itself is the 3D one I believe) and
> unity-2D and appears no difference.  This was done by choosing those
> options prior to logging in to server - not sure if that actually sets
> the second display, :1, properly though.
> 
> thanks
> Shanon
> 
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