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I have a Ubuntu 12.04 server installed on a Hyper-V platform, mainly used for Nagios SNMP monitoring, but I'm interested to try and get a GUI installed so I can use the server for some other applications that don't use CMDLine.
I'm not sure if this is possible - but similarly in Backtrack the GUI is started via typing startx in the shell, but can choose not to use the GUI and continue using the CMDLine on boot. Is this possible with Ubuntu server, have a GUI installed, but have the choice to utilise cmdline when it first loads, and choose to load into the GUI as and when needed?
Would installing Ubuntu-desktop still allow me to only access the GUI via startx – PnP – 2012-06-12T21:07:52.460
I don't know if it configures X to start GDM automatically or not by default, but running
startx && /etc/init.d/gdm start
should do it if not. You can also add GDM to your xconfig to start it evertime x starts. Chances are you don't want to do this on a server though. – Sam Whited – 2012-06-12T21:11:27.817