Ubuntu Server graphical interface?

David Portwood dzp at bellsouth.net
Wed Apr 30 18:41:54 UTC 2008


Installing gnome+gdm should pull in all the dependancies, a much lighter
weight solution would be xfce+xdm.
Good Luck.
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 20:13 +0200, Sander van Vugt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sure, I know, you shouldn't run a graphical interface on a server. But
> some of my customers just want to be able to start up a graphical
> environment anyway. And since it's my task to server my customers in the
> most optimal way, I'd like to have some advice here: is there any
> recommended procedure of setting up X on Ubuntu Server, or is something
> like
> 
> sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg xfonts* gnome
> 
> just the best way of doing it?
> 
> Thanks for your advice,
> 
> Sander 
> 
> 





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