[GRLUG] gui on a server

[Patrick Goupell]

Try this article.  It should show you how to do what you want.  Or do a 
search for "server light weight gui" or some such words.

http://smallboxadmin.blogspot.com/2008/10/adding-lightweight-gui-to-ubuntu-server.html

On 04/06/2012 05:24 PM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 05:12:37PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>    
>>
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>>> When *I* was a kid (early 20's) the gui was started at a runlevel.
>>> Runlevel3 was the command line, runlevel5 got you the gui.  Startx
>>> actually changed the runlevel.
>>>        
>> are u sure?  back on igdrassil and friends startx was for running the
>> X server in runlevel 3.  runlevel 5 ("init 5") always implies a
>> display manager - although current display managers support
>> autologins.
>>      
> Debian runs multi-user at runlevel 2, regardless.  RedHat and its
> derivatives used runlevel 5 for multi-user with GUI (via a display
> manager) and runlevel 2 for multi-user console.
>
> I've never understood that distinction.  I'm no sysadmin but I'm not
> sure how distinguishing between the two (above) is practical.  Do
> businesses sometimes run multi-user console but later need to switch to
> multi-user GUI?  Debian just seems (to me) to be cleaner.  Functionally
> (not merely theoretically) it seems that a system needs runlevels 1, 2,
> and 6.
>
>    
>> letting a display manager run is a good thing.  they are integrated
>> with keyrings, etc... so u get the full desktop experience.
>>      
> That's a much bigger issue these days than it was ten or twelve years
> ago.  If I run startx from a commandline I don't get sound.  If I login
> via a display manager I get sound.  That's new behavior.  For years I
> didn't run a display manager and didn't have that issue.
>    

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Patrick Goupell

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