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Joshi
Asked: 2016-10-17 00:26:45 +0800 CST

How to access Ubuntu 14.04 server remotely using GUI

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I have installed Xserver using these commands

sudo apt-get install xauth
sudo apt-get install xorg

Even I have installed nautilus. I have installed xming on my windows 10 mcahine. Now when using putting and xming and running the command startx I am getting a graphical window, which doesn't look good and too slow. What I read is that xming uses the client graphics driver opnegl and not server driver and it should be quite fast. What I am missing here. Do I need to install lightdm or GDM on ubuntu.

Another question is if I install 

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Will the server boot into graphical environment, which I don't want. I just want to access the remote ubuntu 14.04 server graphically and when session is terminated it just remains as a headless server.

server

1 Answers

  1. You can try x2go. It's basically allows you to run remote X session:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2Go

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