Why gnome-terminal menu bar is missing?

[Peng Yu]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 10 May 2011 21:44, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On 10 May 2011 21:20, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:21 PM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
>>>>>>OK. I see it on the ubuntu default desktop. The problem is that I also
>>>>>>use vnc (with the window manager icewm). In this window manager,
>>>>>>there is no bar on the top of the screen. So I don't see the menu. Is
>>>>>>there a fix for this?
>>>>>
>>>>> I use vnc as well, and it won't let me run unity on my vnc connection. Does
>>>>> it work for you?
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what is unity. But here is my startup file. I don't think
>>>> that I'm using it.
>>>
>>> As I said previously, if you have a row of pretty buttons down the
>>> left side of the screen then you are using Unity, if you have a row of
>>> menus across the top (Applications, Places, System) then you are using
>>> the Classic interface.  On the logon screen, on the page where you
>>> enter the password, you can select which you want to use from a select
>>> list at the bottom of the screen.  Selecting Ubuntu gives you the
>>> Unity interface.
>>
>> Then I think that I'm using the Unity interface. (This is the default
>> for natty, right? As I don't change anything after upgrading to
>> natty.)
>
> As I keep saying, if you see the buttons down the left hand side you
> are using Unity, if you have the Applications, Places, System menus
> across the top then you are using classic, whether you have changed
> anything is irrelevant.

I'm pretty sure the desktop looks like what on http://unity.ubuntu.com/.

By telling you that I didn't change anything, I should get the
default. I was asking whether Unity is the default.

>> Why Unity interface can affect vnc? How to get the menu back of
>> gnome-terminal in vnc?
>
> I don't know whether there are issues using vnc with Unity, but if you
> get the remote user to logon using the Classic desktop, by selecting
> that on the screen where the password is entered when logging on, then
> you should be ok.

I ssh to the natty ubuntu machine (where some vncserver sessions are
running) with appropriate port forwarding and I use vncviewer on a
different machine to view the vnc session on the natty Ubuntu. As you
can see, I'm not using the process that you think. So unity may be
irrelevant to the problem. Also see my reply to NoOp.

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Regards,
Peng