Solved: gui for ubuntu server 7.04

snorkytheweasel · 27-Aug-2007, 06:22 PM #1

How to I fire up the (a) gui for ubuntu server?

I prefer KDE, but Gnome will do.

All of the arguments against using a gui w/ server are irrelevant. My boss (a self-described command-line cripple) wants a gui, and he's the one who signs my paychecks.

Way back when, on RedHat-based distros, "startx" was the command. Ubuntu either doesn't use "startx", or it hides it well.

TIA, TTFN

Squashman · 27-Aug-2007, 10:19 PM #2

Did you install an X Window System?
Either Xfree86 or Xorg.

Did you configure that correctly?

snorkytheweasel · 28-Aug-2007, 01:53 AM #3

Hmmmmmm.

You're saying that installing X would be a start.

That makes sense.

I'll try it. Thanks.

lotuseclat79 · 28-Aug-2007, 10:15 AM #4

Hi snorkytheweasel,

Read the 2nd topic, Install an Ubuntu Server and everything after it, on this webpage before you attempt anything else first.

-- Tom

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