12.10 and vncserver missing menu

**toypilot** · October 29th, 2012

Hi all,

I have been trying to get vncserver running on 12.10 using the new default desktop.

Has anyone else managed to get this running?

I have managed to get the desktop background to show by adding the following line to ~/.vnc/xstartup

gnome-session --session=ubuntu &

But nothing else appears.. no menu bar etc...

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

**toypilot** · October 31st, 2012

Originally Posted by toypilot

Hi all,

I have been trying to get vncserver running on 12.10 using the new default desktop.

Has anyone else managed to get this running?

I have managed to get the desktop background to show by adding the following line to ~/.vnc/xstartup

gnome-session --session=ubuntu &

But nothing else appears.. no menu bar etc...

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Bump... Does anyone know the answer to this or have any ideas to test?

**austinite** · November 1st, 2012

Hi,
I am having the same problem.
I have tried --session=ubuntu, unity, ubuntu-2d, ubuntu-3d, unity-2d, unity-3d.
None of these give me the ubuntu unity layout or there are no menu bars, etc.

I have been using it with gnone-classic, but its not the same.
Many of the gnome functions aren't working either.

Anybody else ?

Found this thread - http://kb.realvnc.com/questions/235/...r+Ubuntu+12.10

thanks

**toypilot** · November 2nd, 2012

Well your post helped me! thanks for that.. I will try that for a while and see if it does most of what I need.

"gnome-session --session=gnome-fallback"

EDIT: I take it back, that doesnt work at all.. I cant explain whats happening there, but vncserver is not delivering my desktop, something else is that works intermittently. Probably a problem between the keyboard and the chair... but I have had this running a few versions of ubuntu now without these issues.

Originally Posted by austinite

Hi,
I am having the same problem.
I have tried --session=ubuntu, unity, ubuntu-2d, ubuntu-3d, unity-2d, unity-3d.
None of these give me the ubuntu unity layout or there are no menu bars, etc.

I have been using it with gnone-classic, but its not the same.
Many of the gnome functions aren't working either.

Anybody else ?

Found this thread - http://kb.realvnc.com/questions/235/...r+Ubuntu+12.10

thanks

**Palletje** · November 6th, 2012

I have the same issue. I can't get the unity to work with the menubar. I do get menu bars with the following
gnome-session --session=gnome &

but gnome-session --session=ubuntu &
gives me a a unity with an empty desktop

Anyone has any answers to this problem?

**han109h** · November 13th, 2012

So I had been having this problem since I upgraded to 12.10 from 12.04, and did something to day that finally worked.

First I purged tightvncserver, then purged vnc4server.

Installed tightvncserver, then vnc4server, created the below xstartup file and made it executable.

I get errors in the logfile, however it runs the gnome-classic desktop (no others yet).

I would be interested to see if this works for anyone else.

Hans

~/.vnc/xstartup

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
#exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
gnome-session --session=gnome-classic &

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
#x-terminal-emulator -geometry 1280x1024+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
#x-window-manager &

**Holmen** · November 14th, 2012

Any news? I´d like to see my usual desktop an not only the background image. Using classic, would my opened application windows still show?

**johnswb** · February 9th, 2013

hmm, looks like I'm sticking with 12.4 unless someone has had any success?

**wangwatercup** · February 12th, 2013

I tried to implement your method in a remote host, to which my local laptop is connected by SSH. I cannot get connected with the remote host, which says

"channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed"

And host log file are the following:

Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.1 - built Feb 5 2012 20:04:02
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
Underlying X server release 40300000, The XFree86 Project, Inc

Tue Feb 12 14:41:36 2013
vncext: VNC extension running!
vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5901
vncext: Listening for HTTP connections on port 5801
vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
/home/ubuntu/.vnc/xstartup: 7: /home/ubuntu/.vnc/xstartup: gnome-session: not f$
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
xsetroot: unable to open display ':1'

Could someone help?

Originally Posted by han109h

So I had been having this problem since I upgraded to 12.10 from 12.04, and did something to day that finally worked.

First I purged tightvncserver, then purged vnc4server.

Installed tightvncserver, then vnc4server, created the below xstartup file and made it executable.

I get errors in the logfile, however it runs the gnome-classic desktop (no others yet).

I would be interested to see if this works for anyone else.

Hans

~/.vnc/xstartup

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
#exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
gnome-session --session=gnome-classic &

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
#x-terminal-emulator -geometry 1280x1024+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
#x-window-manager &

**shaace** · February 14th, 2013

Have managed to make the missing menu (gnome-panel) to appear by following steps:
1. Install gnome-panel
sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
2. Add following line at the end in ~/.vnc/xstartup
gnome-panel &

That is all.
Hope this help.