Virtual desktop envrionement

[ElNinja]

Hi there! Great guide to setup a server, working on it currently and hoping to finalise shortly!

However i have a question. Regarding the virtual desktop, i see we are to install Gnome-core which works fine, everything works perfectly. No i was wondering if it is possible to have another enviroment/theme instead of the one that comes up when i VNC into the box.

The reason for this is because i would be messing around ubuntu using vnc as the box is headless and would like a nice theme to go with it!

Can this be done? Does it change anything in the guide as far as vnc is concerned?

Thanks!

[Ian]

Hi there ElNinja and welcome to the forum.

Thanks for the kind words about my site.

I'd not even considered adding an additional environment/theme as I was simply using the bog standard desktop just to save learning some commands. However, it is quite simple to do (I just tried it out in response to your question):

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bisigi

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sudo apt-get install murrine-themes

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sudo apt-get install gnome-themes

To install all themes:

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sudo apt-get install bisigi-themes

Hope this helps

Ian.

[ElNinja]

Thank you Ian!

So im guessing this downloads a bunch of themes and then i can select them once in the virtual desktop (in what im guessing would be a config section of the desktop?)

Thanks!

[Ian]

Correct. You select them under System -> Preferences.

You can obviously also download extra ones and then install them via the same menu option.

[Ian]

As an alternative you could install a full-blown desktop version of Ubuntu as a VM and keep the core OS install as a headless machine. See my KVM Guide for further details