Why gnome-terminal menu bar is missing?

[Colin Law]

On 10 May 2011 23:49, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:45 PM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
>>>I use a different window manager (icewm). Here is my screen shot. You
>>>can see that menu is missing in gnome-terminal.
>>
>> You aren't running unity or gnome - that's a x-window session, I believe
>> it's called. Are you using vino, which shares a desktop that's been logged
>> into on the console, or are you using vncserver (or equal) that provides
>> access even if no one is logged onto the console?
>
> I use the command vncserver to start vnc on the server side and use
> vncviewer (at a local port, something like localhost:1) to view on the
> client side. I use ssh port forwarding to forward the port from the
> server to the client.

If you are worried about not having the menu in the terminal, why not
just ssh into the remote machine from a terminal in the local machine.
 No need to use vnc at all and you will get much better response.

Colin