Would anyone have an update on which source to use please?
My 14.04 server is up & running, and I finally got alsa to see my sound card so would like to add LMS, but bit confused which versions works.

xfce4 seems to work well, so I've stuck with that on my server.
Might be worth a look to see if it will satisfy your requirements (just turn off the fiberlamp screensaver - seems to chew up a lot of cpu cycles when idle!)

So this is quite different to the main site howto.
Anyone else tried ... before I have a crack :P
Love to see the main howto updated with something working!

Edit 20/7 - tried xfce4 and working fine, thanks.

Thanks Shag. I might reinstall my server and this time clone it before I start messing with desktops & VNC!
Have used xfce4 a while back, seemed ok. Not planning to do anything fancy via desktop anyway.
Cheers.

Hi, also ran into this problem it seems, just last week. So is VNC broken, or something to do with gnome? Does xfce4 work fine? I installed with some basic gnome gui option, then tried to follow the site instructions (awesome btw, thanks so much!) but rgey screen 3 check boxes only. Can anyone confi...