I have never seen that issue on Ubuntu, nor can I reproduce it on my
nVidia-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation.  However, I have seen a
similar issue on other GNOME 3 platforms, including SLES 12, RHEL 7, and
Fedora 22.  I'm wondering if it's the same issue you're experiencing:

https://github.com/TurboVNC/turbovnc/issues/43#issuecomment-239725105

If so, then it's caused by an interaction bug between GTK3 and X.org 7.7
(the version on which TurboVNC is based), and it should be fixed in GTK
3.19.6, but that version doesn't appear to have made it into Xenial yet.

The issue doesn't exist with later versions of the X.org X server.
Specifically, it's known to occur with xorg-xserver 1.13 and earlier but
not with xorg-xserver 1.15 (TurboVNC uses xorg-xserver 1.12.4.)
However, I spent numerous hours last summer (as I was debugging TurboVNC
2.1) attempting to figure out what it was about xorg-xserver 1.15 that
made that version immune from the bug.  Unfortunately I was never able
to identify the exact point at which the fix occurred.  If I could
identify that, then I could back-port the relevant code into the
TurboVNC X server.


On 2/2/17 12:53 AM, Dieter Blaas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>      I installed the latest version of TurboVNC under Ubuntu-16.04 and 
> everything works fine when connected from remote. However, strangely, 
> only when I want to open a terminal through 'Applications > System tools 
>  > Terminal I see the message 'Starting Terminal' in the bottom bar and 
> the little spinning cursor on the desktop but both disappear after about 
> 20 seconds and nothing happens. All other applications e.g. Firefox, 
> Libre Office etc. work as expected. Locally, there is no such problem 
> whatsoever. Is this known and if so, is there a solution?
> 
> Thanks, Dieter

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