Ubuntu :: Different Gnome Sessions For VNC Display?
May 31, 2010
i have tightVNCserver running to provide me with a means of working on my machine whilst the wife watches mythTV on the (physical) display.
in 8.04 i used to have "gnome-panel &" as a line in my /home/mike/.vnc/xstartup file, and it worked fine, when i logged in via VNC i had a nice gnome panel to start apps from etc.
since 10.04 this stopped working and i had to change gnome-panel to gnome-session. this works... but now it loads everything up in the VNC window just like it does in my main window. this is a problem because it loads things like mythTV front end and so on... i don't want it to do that in my VNC window.
does anyone know how it might be possible for me to have two different 'types' of gnome session? Settings i change in System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications are common to both my VNC and my physical displays so i can't turn off mythTVfrontend in there to solve the problem.
i'm not sure why gnome-panel stopped working in my xstartup file, but it happened when i upgraded from 8.04 to 10.04. if i try it in the ugly xterm window on VNC i get:
Code:
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.0".
** (gnome-panel:26161): WARNING **: Cannot register the panel shell: cannot connect to the session bus. the RANDR stuff i get when i launch gnome-session too so i think its the second bit that's the real problem.
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Jul 31, 2010
When I get to the login screen on my computer (with ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, and xubuntu-desktop installed on Ubuntu), Gnome isn't in the list of desktop environments!
My temporary solution:
I have Openbox/Gnome. I also have an icon in my panel that opens "compiz --replace" so I can still use the regular WM with compiz.
Why my temporary solution isn't good enough:
It's annoying to have to have an extra icon in my panel, and to have to press it at login. Also, I don't get the Compiz splash screen when I login. Overall it's just not as impressive.
Is there any way to get Gnome back in the menu?
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Here are the error messages when running from a terminal window:
(gnome-panel:5205): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_context_get_background_color: assertion `priv->widget_path != NULL' failed
(gnome-panel:5205): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_context_get: assertion `priv->widget_path != NULL' failed
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rpm -qa|grep -i gnome-panel
gnome-panel-libs-3.0.0.1-4.fc15.x86_64
gnome-panel-3.0.0.1-4.fc15.x86_64
gnome-panel-devel-3.0.0.1-4.fc15.x86_64 .....
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Specifications:
Dell PoweEdge 1600SC
ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro 256MB PCI graphics adaptor
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Linux 2.6.31-22-generic #69-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 08:51:08 UTC 2010 i686
ATI fglrx drivers
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