Floating windows not available

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Per the advice of the 2022 post #38853 I installed nomachine-workstation_8.8.1_1_x86_64.rpm (on two Linux computers). I can connect OK to a remote computer and get a desktop session, but there is no “Custom session” option for getting floating windows. The “create  a new desktop or custom session” button seen in the docs like https://kb.nomachine.com/DT04O00140#4.2 does not exist in my NoMachine user interface. The only button I see is the “New” button wherein there are no settings for floating windows.  Has the floating window feature been phased out of Workstation?

[Britgirl]

What is the system and desktop environment?

Is this an installed Workstation out-of-the-box or did you change something (or someone else maybe changed something?) It looks as if custom sessions are disabled. More info about this here: https://kb.nomachine.com/AR07P00989

Can you tell us the output of:

sudo grep AvailableSessionTypes /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg ?

You could also try this command as well:
sudo /usr/NX/scripts/setup/nxnode --availablesessionsetup

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