Testing showed that disabling GL enforcement is not enough. Seems like gnome-session-3.9.99 suffers from severe stability issues, it crashes frequently with GL enforcement disabled. I've prepared back-ported from gnome 3.12 package: https://launchpad.net/~eugenesan/+archive/ppa/+sourcepub/4095467/+listing-archive-extra It contains a fix for GL enforcement (100_kill_gl_enforcement.patch) and upstream fixes, combined they solve the problem.
I hope package maintainers will find a way to "extract" the fix from the package above or import it to official repos. ** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1251281 Title: gnome-flashback (metacity) fails to start without hardware acceleration, cloud/remote environments (Forwarded-X/XRDP/VNC/NX/X2GO/Chromoting) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1251281/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs