July 23 2017 - Beijing

To login the Ubuntu Server with Graphical Interface. Many deep learning codes are written for graphical server, thus I try to login the server with graphical interface in local WINDOWS operating system.

PART ONE : Install gnome for Ubuntu Server

sudo apt-get install xinit

The gdm is short for gnome desktop manager, and other kinds of manager may do no harm, such as lightdm, kdm

sudo apt-get install gdm

Pay attention to the step of ubuntu-desktop if you are to install gnome, do use ubuntu-desktop instead of [k|l|x]ubuntu-desktop which is for kde or something else

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

PART TWO ： VNC install and configuration

The only but most important thing in this part is the xstartup file

reference

def
export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

gnome-panel &
gnome-settings-daemon &
metacity &
nautilus &
gnome-terminal &

But do not forget to install the dependencies first with apt/apt-get: gnome-panel, gnome-settings-daemon, matacity, nautilus, gnome-terminal

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel gnome-settings-daemon metacity nautilus gnome-terminal