Using NX with Unity in 11.10

Question

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

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?

Solution 1

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

Solution 2

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).

Comments

[Kurtis Nusbaum]

As I said in my question above, doing this does not work.

[Kurtis Nusbaum]

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

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

Glad to hear that :)

[Ben McCann]

I wasn't sure where in the NX client to enter this command. See the following answer for more details: askubuntu.com/questions/69522/…