<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir="ltr"> <p>Greetings,</p> <p><br> </p> <p>I recently installed an Ubuntu Server with 16.04.2. After installing I decided I wanted to put a desktop environment on it for access to a gui. Since I still love Gnome2, I installed gnome-session-flashback on it using apt-get install gnome-session-flashback. It pulled all of the required additional packages and installed. Upon completion I restarted the server. When it came back up, there was only CLI. Trying to toggle CTRL+ALT+F2 or CTRL+ALT+F7 didn't do anything. I then tried running startx and xinit. It appears like it tried to go to a gui but ended up with a blank screen. It seemed like maybe it was just missing a display manager so I installed lightdm. Now I get a login screen, but I can't get a session to start. What am I missing? Why did installing gnome-session-flashback not automatically install a display manager? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. <br> </p> <p><br> </p> <p>Regards,<br> Jeff<br> </p> <div id="Signature"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,"EmojiFont","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;"> <div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial"><br> Jeff Donaldson</span><br> <span style="font-family:Arial">Technology Director<br> Newark Charter School<br> jeff.donaldson@ncs.k12.de.us<br> (302) 369-2001 ext: 625<br> </span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>