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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!

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):









To install all themes:


Hope this helps

Ian.

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!

Correct. You select them under System -> Preferences.

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

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