I did try with different clients a year ago or so but the only one I got fully working was Xubuntu. The problem with the other variants was that the menu panel / program panel newer showed up, or rather just quickly showed up for a fraction of a second and then was gone.
So everything works as intended except for the program panel is missing. When i run mate-panel --reset as suggested in this thread I get this output:
(mate-panel:5312): dconf-WARNING **: 11:21:07.071: failed to commit changes to dconf: GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._g_2dfile_2derror_2dquark.Code2: Failed to rename file “/home/user@my.domain/.config/dconf/user.M3Y5YZ” to “/home/user@my.domain/.config/dconf/user”: g_rename() failed: Permission denied
The /home/user@my.domain/ share is located on the nethserver and auto mounted when logging in. I presume this was the problem I run into a year ago. The question now is what the solution looks like.
But perhaps this matter should be posted in a separate thread and this might not even be related to nethserver.
Regards
/Mathias