Comments on: FreeNX on Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) – What happened to my GNOME theme?

By: Redsandro

Redsandro — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:30:59 +0000

I tried all three solutions but it’s not working in Ubuntu 9.10.
Have you upgraded to 9.10 yet? I am wondering if you have managed to fix the problem there also.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:49:30 +0000

Alessandro,

please take a look at https://edge.launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson/+archive/ppa

en find the

libgnome-desktop-2-11_2.28.1-0ubuntu3~chrisccoulson1_.deb

and

libgnome-desktop-dev_2.28.1-0ubuntu3~chrisccoulson1_.deb

files and install.

This will fix it (at least it did here)

**where in my case would be “amd64″.

Cheers!

By: alessandro

alessandro — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:52:31 +0000

freenx worked fine in ubuntu 9.04 with this fix
now i upgraded to 9.10 and the same problem showed up, but disabling the keyboard and mouse plugins didn’t help

By: Meacuh

Meacuh — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:41:00 +0000

The theme problem got fixed – but there is still something fundementally broken in Ubuntu 9.04 and FreeNX server (at least in my case). The NX Client freezes ocassionally and it seem to be rather random, usually in cases where the windowing system has to represent a lot widgets (such as complex settings window with a lot checkboxes, radiobuttons etc.). The GUI of such applications also keeps freezing requently, and then comes back alive. Sometimes the application can be un-responding for 15-20 second, then comes back alive for 2-5 second, and freezes again. This happens only inside FreeNX session, not via VNC or locally. (one example of such application is Lazarus IDE).

By: Meacuh

Meacuh — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:40:28 +0000

Wow, thank you! This actually solved the problem. I did not have this issue on regular logins or with VNC, but gnome-settings-daemon did crash every time I logged in only via FreeNX.

Oddly also, if you went into System -> Preferences -> Appearance, the theme came back for a while, taskbar got themed for couple of seconds, and then everything reverted back to plain gray theme.

By: Lightenup

Lightenup — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:31:22 +0000

Sweet thanks!!! Worked like a charm!

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:59:29 +0000

Thank you!!! Been searching for a solution to this for a while. Disabled the keyboard-thing and it did the trick!

By: Joachim J

Joachim J — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:18:42 +0000

Thanks,

Your tip solved my problems.

By: Ratana

Ratana — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:46:38 +0000

Glad to see this article. I have test my ubuntu 9.04 and freenx for a month, because I plan to send the machine to my family, they were working well together. Just 2 days before I send, the 29 July evening, the gnome theme, keyboard indicator started behave funny. It took me 2 day to reinstall the whole system twice but the problem still there.

Keyboard indicator is my main issue because I have to use Eng-Thai keyboard. I have tried xfce, kde and other the theme, they seem to work fine but keyboard indicator still a problem. I,also, have tried to edit the xorg.conf to enable this function with no luck.

So I am still waiting for the good news, may be have to wait for the 9.10

By: Ronald

Ronald — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:07:03 +0000

Hi Aaron,

It seems that the lock problem was also solved by the fix you mention. But when logging in through NX it takes a few minutes before the “Lock Screen” actually responds.

Thanks again mate. And now of to work