Xephyr with no Launcher for Ubuntu 16.04 (vs Lubuntu)

[livebe01]

I'm remixing ubuntu-16.04.4-desktop-i386.iso using a fresh ubuntu 16.04.4 vm (VMWare Fusion 8.5.8) and Customizer 4.1.5. When I run 'customizer -x' ('Desktop' in the gui), I get the desktop via Xephyr, but no Launcher. W/o the Launcher it's tricky to get around.

I did find one workaround: 1) right-click on the desktop and select 'New Folder.' Click on the folder to open a File browser. In the File browser, navigate to /usr/bin and run xterm. From xterm run unity.

Does anyone have a better fix? If I find something I'll post back.

Thanks!

[kamilion]

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the mainline ISO or any of the unity stuff (it uses MIR, not XWindows), I try to stay as far away from canonicals' weird little internal projects as possible.

They dropped MIR for 18.04, as they were planning on moving to wayland; but stopped short, and reverted to the plain Xorg packages.

Generally, I've had to do a lot of hacky things to unbreak a FileSystem after launching graphical tools, even synaptic needs some cleanup after it's been run.

https://github.com/kamilion/kamikazi-core/blob/master/buildscripts/xenial/00-build-minilubuntu-iso-from-source.sh#L33

https://github.com/kamilion/kamikazi-core/blob/master/buildscripts/xenial/mini-rebuild.sh#L16

I'd recommend avoiding using Xephyr if possible.

As for better fixes, you're probably better off running the Xsession start script instead of calling unity from xterm. But considering it's only temporary while you're modifying the ISO, whatever works.

[livebe01]

Hey, thanks for the reply, pointers, Kamilion. Appreciate it!