# Rocky 8.5, GNOME-Classic, and Guacamole

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-8-5-gnome-classic-and-guacamole/4876>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [December 13, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-8-5-gnome-classic-and-guacamole/4876 "2021-12-13T13:12:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jimr999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@jimr999](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jimr999)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-8-5-gnome-classic-and-guacamole/4876/1 "2021-12-13T13:12:08Z")

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Hello. I’m new to Rocky, but not to Linux in general.

We are trying to implement a set of VMs running Rocky 8.4 and 8.5 in VMware ESXi, and make the desktop available via Apache Guacamole using XRDP. We have been successful, except for one problem - our specification requires that the Gnome-Classic desktop be displayed, and we cannot find a way to cause that to happen. No matter what we do, we get the GNOME3 desktop. RHEL documentation says to simply change the contents of /var/lib/AccountsService/users/$USER, and we’ve done that, but to no avail. we’ve also tried to adjust the contents of the .desktop files in /usr/share/xsessions, still with no joy.

I am working on testing using VNC as the remote protocol today to see if that makes a difference.

Any suggestions or feedback would be most appreciated!

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**Author:** ![jlehtone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-8-5-gnome-classic-and-guacamole/4876/2 "2021-12-13T14:25:10Z")

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What if you remove “unnecessary desktops”?  
See what you have/is available with:

```auto
dnf list \*session\*
dnf provides /usr/share/xsessions/*.desktop

```

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**Author:** ![jimr999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@jimr999](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jimr999)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-8-5-gnome-classic-and-guacamole/4876/3 "2021-12-13T14:28:47Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion, jlehtone. We tried it… didn’t work.

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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:59am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-8-5-gnome-classic-and-guacamole/4876/4 "2023-08-25T03:59:31Z")

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