# No executable profiles what do I do

**URL:** <https://community.thinlinc.com/t/no-executable-profiles-what-do-i-do/1319>\
**Category:** Community Support\
**Tags:** linux\
**Created:** [4 February 2025 10:04 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/no-executable-profiles-what-do-i-do/1319 "2025-02-04T10:04:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![perdrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@perdrix](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/perdrix)\
**Post date:** [4 February 2025 10:04 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/no-executable-profiles-what-do-i-do/1319/1 "2025-02-04T10:04:44Z")

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I installed Thinlinc server on my Lubuntu 24.04 LTS system. When I tried to connect from the Windows client I got “Error: No executable profiles”. The content of /usr/share/xessions:

```auto
amonra@charon:/usr/share/xsessions$ ls -l
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123 Apr 18 2024 Lubuntu.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2175 Apr 8 2024 lxqt.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 198 Apr 8 2024 openbox.desktop
amonra@charon:/usr/share/xsessions$

```

What should I do to allow me to connect please?

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**Author:** ![aaron](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.thinlinc.com/aaron/32/13_2.png) [@aaron](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/aaron)\
**Post date:** [5 February 2025 04:57 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/no-executable-profiles-what-do-i-do/1319/2 "2025-02-05T04:57:07Z")

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Hi @perdrix,

Welcome to the forum!

Probably the issue here is that none of your installed desktop environments have a default configuration for them in ThinLinc. If you check the file `/opt/thinlinc/etc/conf.d/profiles.hconf`, you’ll see which ones are available by default.

You can either install one of these DEs, or you can add a new stanza to `profiles.hconf` for whatever desktop environment you would like to use. My colleague @matre has written an article which might help with this here:

> [@Create a custom executable Profile (Zorin, Budgie, Pop!\_Os, etc)](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/create-a-custom-executable-profile-zorin-budgie-pop-os-etc/1226):
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> Many desktop environment work seamlessly with ThinLinc, as long as it supports X11, and these are shipped with premade profiles ready to use. However not everyone is bound by the shackles of conventional distros and may therefore be met by the message [Error: No executable profiles could be found](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/error-no-executable-profiles-could-be-found/40/1) – thus requiring a custom profile for ThinLinc! To begin setting up a custom ThinLinc profile, you need to figure out which desktop environment to use when setting up our new custom ThinLinc profil…

If you need any assistance though, just sing out.

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**Author:** ![perdrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@perdrix](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/perdrix)\
**Post date:** [5 February 2025 10:55 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/no-executable-profiles-what-do-i-do/1319/3 "2025-02-05T10:55:43Z")

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I added this to profiles.hconf:

```auto
[/profiles/Lubuntu]
description_from_testcmd=false
testcmd=
cmdline=
screenshot=lubuntu-ss.png
icon=lubuntu.svg
xdg_session=Lubuntu lubuntu
description=Lubuntu
name=Lubuntu

```

About to test: It seems to work but icons are missing will open a new thread