I successfully installed gnome now but cannot open synaptic, settings or download things. I did not have this issue with xfce4. has anyone else had this issue? How can I make mine work? Thanks, Shag Edit: I ended up sticking with xfce4. I have used both gnome and xfce4 and in a vnc session I couldn'...

I was able to install gnome on 14.04 and synaptic, I also have same issue. I think its a permission issue because I cannot open settings or download anything.

Shag

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Because I cannot get gnome to work in vnc like it were installed on a desktop I went back to using xfce4.

I have tried multiple ways of preventing xfce4 from loading at server start and the only successful option that I have implemented was to edit the grub file. Edit /etc/default/grub sudo vim /etc/default/grub Find this line in your grub file GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”” no matter what is in the quot...

Hi Wimma77, Hi, also ran into this problem it seems, just last week. So is VNC broken, or something to do with gnome? Does xfce4 work fine? I posted earlier in this thread that gnome fallback is noted as needing hardware acceleration. I've been using xcfe4 since 6-11 and installed panel addons to mi...

Hello efighter, I did the exact same thing Cquit suggested and it also worked for me, Thanks Cquit! The reason I asked if he installed xfce4 on top of Gnome is I didn't want all the bloat of gnome and its dependencies on my ubuntu installation if I wasn't going to be using it. That would be the only...

hi i am very new to ubuntu i am working my way thought the step by step guide but have came across a problem trying to assign the VNC script to a runlevel after i have put in the following command update-rc.d StartVNC.sh defaults i get the following information: george@ubuntu:~/MyScripts$ update-rc...

Cquit, Did you do a fresh install of Ubuntu then xfce4, or did you just install on top of gnome? Thanks, Shag Edit: I just reinstalled Ubuntu on my 30gig partition of my Hd then xfce4. It works now with with vnc. Look forward to Ian's guide to REINSTALLING UBUNTU SERVER ON YOUR 30GIG PARTITION :clap:

Hello, I am learning how to setup my first media server and love the site! I have been going through this guide with a fine tooth comb and have successfully setup my first samba share. :clap: I have had a few hick ups along the way with webmin and VNC but I will keep a watchful eye on the forums :ug...

Morning, I was really happy to find your guide for the current version of linux but I also have the same issue as iain1234. From what I have read gnome-fallback.desktop now requires accelerated graphics, or is broken, and defaults to gnome3 somehow. So if there no fix in the near future, I have seen...