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[Michael Pabst <1251281@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey @eugenesan - I followed your instructions on installing your patched
packages, but it was still not working for me, at least using
tightvncserver on a newly-created EC2 instance running Trusty. Is there
anything I need to do other than pass --session=gnome-flashback as the
argument to gnome-session ? Thanks for supplying this, btw.

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Title:
  gnome-flashback (metacity) fails to start without hardware
  acceleration, cloud/remote environments
  (Forwarded-X/XRDP/VNC/NX/X2GO/Chromoting)

Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  When trying to launch gnome-flashback (metacity) session from
  XRDP/VNC/NX/X2GO/Chromoting it fails with diagnostics in log:

  >gnome-session-is-accelerated: No composite extension.
  >gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256
  >gnome-session-is-accelerated: No composite extension.
  >gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256
  >** (process:11622): WARNING **: software acceleration check failed: Child process exited with code 1

  When starting manually gnome-panel, metacity, nautilus and other
  components from .xsession - it works normally.

  Looks like - unnecessary check performed (and failed).

  This breaks gnome-flashback, breaking upgrade path from previous LTS
  and removing most sane option for cloud environments!

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