<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Olivier Fourdan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fourdan@gmail.com" target="_blank">fourdan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 at 17:09, Vangelis Katsikaros <<a href="mailto:vkatsikaros@gmail.com">vkatsikaros@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi<br>
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> I am making an Ubuntu 18.04 server with xfce on top. The reason is that I want a cloud VM with X.<br>
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> I followed the instructions <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-16-04" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.digitalocean.com/<wbr>community/tutorials/initial-<wbr>server-setup-with-ubuntu-16-04</a> and <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-vnc-on-ubuntu-16-04" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.digitalocean.com/<wbr>community/tutorials/how-to-<wbr>install-and-configure-vnc-on-<wbr>ubuntu-16-04</a><br>
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> which correspond to these commands [1]<br>
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> I can connect fine to the remote machine via VNC and I can do GUI actions like clicking on the time, the startup/xfce mouse menu.<br>
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> However, when I click on the terminal nothing happens. dpgk shows that 0.8.7.3-0ubuntu1 is installed.<br>
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> Any ideas on how I can debug/solve the problem?<br>
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> Regards<br>
> Vangelis<br>
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> [1]<br>
> # root<br>
> $ adduser vangelis<br>
> $ usermod -aG sudo vangelis<br>
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> # my user<br>
> $ mkdir ~/.ssh<br>
> $ chmod 700 ~/.ssh<br>
> $ cat > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys<br>
> ssh-rsa ABCDEFG... vangelis@machine<br>
> $ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys<br>
> $ sudo ufw app list<br>
> $ sudo ufw allow OpenSSH<br>
> $ sudo ufw enable<br>
> $ sudo ufw status<br>
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> $ sudo apt-get update<br>
> $ sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies tightvncserver<br>
> $ vncserver<br>
> $ vncserver -kill :1<br>
> $ mv ~/.vnc/xstartup ~/.vnc/xstartup.bak<br>
> $ cat > ~/.vnc/xstartup<br>
> #!/bin/bash<br>
> xrdb $HOME/.Xresources<br>
> startxfce4 &<br>
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> $ sudo chmod +x ~/.vnc/xstartup<br>
><br>
> $ vncserver -depth 16 -geometry 800x600 # start<br>
> $ vncserver -kill :1 # stop<br>
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</div></div>Does it work if you change the launcher to run "xfce4-terminal<br>
--disable-server" instead?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Thanks for the prompt response! Yes, it does work.</div><div><br></div><div>I changed the launcher from "exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator" to "xfce4-terminal<br>
--disable-server" and it launches correctly.</div><div><br></div><div>In order to learn something new, may I ask why?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Vangelis<br></div></div></div></div>