Questions tagged [headless]
Headless software (e.g. "headless Java" or "headless Linux") is software capable of working on a device without a graphical user interface.
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How do I create a completely unattended install of Ubuntu?
I need a CD or USB stick, that will install Ubuntu on a completely headless machine. Stick CD in and restart, no keyboard or screen should be involved.
There are a few obstacles:
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Add Fake Display when No Monitor is Plugged In
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server that has no external monitor connected. I use NoMachine to remote control the machine. When I do so, the Unity/Gnome interface doesn't see any monitors connected, so I ...
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How can I force Ubuntu to boot on a stuck boot menu?
I have Ubuntu Server 11.04, but it is headless (no monitor). The only way I want to be able to access it is remotely via SSH. But, sometimes, say after a power loss, when the server restarts, it will ...
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How do I run PulseAudio in a headless server installation?
PulseAudio is the standard audio server in desktop installations. However in a server installation audio services and thus PulseAudio are not provided.
How do I install and make use of PulseAudio in ...
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How do you run a GUI application without GUI (gui application as daemon on headless server)?
Okay, so I want to run a GUI application as daemon on a server without X. The application is a java program. It can be configured in a configuration file so the GUI is not necessary to use it. ...
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How to turn off Nvidia GPU on a headless server?
I am running a headless server with an Nvidia GPU.
Even when the GPU is not doing any work, it is consuming about 25 Watts of power:
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How can I send VBoxHeadless to the background so I can close the Terminal?
I would like to start virtual machines in headless mode. The advantage: I can logoff from the desktop, and the machine will continue to run. However, starting the virtual machine blocks the Terminal ...
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Disable GUI in Ubuntu 18.04. desktop? (SSH/Webmin headless setup)
Is there a way to disable the GUI in the desktop version of Ubuntu 18.04. so save on power consumption during idle states?
Since I won't have a monitor hooked up to the machine anyway, I'd rather ...
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Automatically force fsck -fy when encountering "UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY."
I have FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS, however, when I drove down to the site and connected a monitor to this server today, I saw this:
I ran fsck.ext4 -fy /dev/sda1 and rebooted and now the server ...
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When machine is headless, user is no longer privileged
The core issue is: ANY gnome session not sitting ontop of a real physical/native display --or shadowing that display (ie. NXserver's shadow mode)-- has faulty privileges. Even when run as root!
Any ...
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Install OpenOffice for headless use
The question very simple and short. I am following this article to install OpenOffice headless:
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-headless openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-draw
And I get the ...
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VirtualBox - run an ova file from command line
I have a remote Ubuntu server without GUI.
How can I run a virtual machine with a test.ova file from the command line?
I folloed this tutorial, but how can I attach the .ova file to the VM?
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How do I set new screen resolution for a headless server (using teamviewer 10 )
I have done a lot of Googling and I can't make sense of all the information.
I want to remotely operate a Lubuntu 14.04 machine from another of the same type. The remote machine has no monitor ...
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nvidia drivers on 20.04 headless server
I'm installing Nvidia driver 450 on a 20.04 brand new server with no desktop environment (which I do not want to have).
(Context: final goal is to install cuda toolkit via Tensorflow Docker, and ...
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Change timezone in 10.04/11.04 without user input
How can one change the time-zone in Ubuntu 10.04 or 11.04 server from the command line without user input (e.g. tzconfig EST).
While one would use dpkg-reconfigure tzdata, per the related question ...
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headless ubuntu server with desktop gui with working gpu
I've ordered a dedicated (headless) server with an nvidia GeForce GT 710B GPU at ikoula (offsite data center). Now I am trying to get a full blown desktop gui to run on it so I can actually run what I ...
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How do I start chromium-browser in headless mode? extension "RANDR" missing on display ":99"
Ubuntu
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Chromium
chromium-browser --version
Chromium 48....
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Headless Ubuntu MATE Raspberry Pi 3 Install?
I'm trying to use my fresh Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Raspberry Pi 3 without a display or keyboard. So I created an empty file called ssh in /boot directory. But still I'm getting a ssh connection refused ...
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How do I set up a headless server via VNC?
I'm trying to configure my system to run headless and access the desktop via VNC when necessary. It seems everytime I unplug the monitor while ubuntu is running, the system freezes and I am forced to ...
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switch temporarily to headless mode or runlevel 3?
I've installed ubuntu 10.10 x86_64 desktop version, which defaults to Xorg login
I want to temporarily switch this machine to server mode, basically i "suspect" this entails setting to runlevel 3 and ...
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Running headless doesn't start correctly unless a display is attached
I want to run Ubuntu 18 headless and connect with AnyDesk. Everything works fine as long as there is a display connected, even when not powered on. If I don't have a display attached, then when it ...
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Headless Passthrough: QEMU-KVM NVidia
Is it possible to run VM and instead of sending picture to monitor, encode VM screen as x264 video stream and send stream over network?
PS I have OpenGL app that runs on Linux and I wish to stream ...
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x11vnc much slower than Xvnc + how to get a Xubuntu session manually
I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 on a headless server inside a VMware virtual machine. I'd prefer using x11vnc over Xvnc in order to use LightDM and the X server started by LightDM (and login using Xubuntu-...
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Getting system to boot in headless mode set-up without display problems
Previously I had Ubuntu 11.04 and I could boot with no monitor attached.
Now I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 with autologin and I've found that is incapable of booting correctly if the monitor isn't ...
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Is it possible to turn the video card off in a laptop to use it as a headless server?
Since I recently upgraded my IT infrastructure, I decided to use my old laptop as a home server. The problem is that the machine sports a powerful nVidia card that even at idle generates enough heat ...
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Cannot create file/directory in home directory
I have a headless Ubuntu 12.10 server. I'm logged in as administrator via SSH. I cannot create a directory in my home directory:
administrator@Leo:~$ cd ~
administrator@Leo:~$ mkdir Test
mkdir: ...
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Can you install Deja-dup on a headless server?
Can I install a command line version of deja-dup backup utility on Ubuntu server?
I wish to restore a backup of my previous Home directory made with deja-dup.
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How do I turn a laptop into headless Ubuntu server?
looking for a way to turn a laptop into a headless box server with ubuntu server, with ssh only access, disk encryption activated, no login prompt at reboot and deactivate screen and keyboard.
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x11vnc Headless on Ubuntu is very slow until monitor connected
I'm running x11vnc on Ubuntu as a service at startup. It generally works fine, but I want to run it headless. If I start the server with a monitor connected but off, VNC connects and responds quickly, ...
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Set desktop resolution for standard 11.10 VNC server
Is it possible to specify a desktop resolution for the built-in ubuntu 11.10 vnc server?
It defaults to 640x480 when I have no monitor connected (headless), and I can't find a way to change it. Does ...
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Server error (-5 - No address associated with hostname)
This seems to be a common problem with 12.04. I've done the searches and found various and sundry replies, but I've yet to find a solution to my situation.
I've installed 12.04 32bit on a server box ...
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GUI browser on a headless server [duplicate]
Is it possible to use a browsers as GUI on a headless Ubuntu Server?
what would it cost in terms of dependencies, resources...whatever?
is it even possible to show only a fullscreen window, the max ...
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How to access Ubuntu GUI through Teamviewer on headless server?
I'm building what will primarily be a Plex Media Server, but I also like to tinker with Linux, so I'd like to get to the GUI via Teamviewer.
I got everything up and working before I realized GUI ...
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How do I remove the 'Write the Changes to the Disks?' question during preseed?
I am pretty new to Ubuntu and Linux. I have spent a lot of time trying to get an unattended install up and running for my Headless Server.
As it stands I have everything almost there but when ...
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How to perform unattended installations of Ubuntu Desktop?
I know that there is a lot of information about headless and unattended installation of Ubuntu servers. But I need to install the desktop version of Trusty on a lot of machines and I would like to ...
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Starting a console program on startup of Ubuntu Server without logging in
I have a headless Ubuntu server that I decided I wanted to put a monitor on to display status information. There are a ton of great programs available that display all sorts of status information, my ...
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Install eclipse + eclim in a headless server
I am trying to install eclipse + elim in a remote linux server where there is no internet connection and no display available (I am accessing the server using putty). Also I don't have root access in ...
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How to start virtualmachine from terminal?
I can not run a Virtualbox Machine from command line what do I exactly need?
I did a bit research first but this command did not work for me:
vboxmanage startvm win7 --type headless
Result is:
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VirutalBox headless VM + 3D acceleration
I have installed virtualbox on my Ubuntu 13.10 (desktop) host, configured windows 7 guest, added extension pack and guest additions. My intention is to work on windows 7 remotely, so I have configured ...
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Which is best to use on a HEADLESS Server that is going to be use as virtualization host? KVM / XEN / QEMU?
Okay, The main purpose is to learn about virtualization and play around with it. However, I have a problem of determining which is best for a headless server. I want to run several Linux distributions ...
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How do I start xterm with a headless system?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and I want to boot directly and headless in the terminal (no GUI). After that I want to startx to start a program in xterm.
When I boot 'headed', everything is working like ...
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Adding a fake monitor for headless system breaks boot when a real monitor is connected
I'm trying to add a fake monitor in Ubuntu 16.04. This is a headless system and the problem is that remote desktop like teamviewer are really slow, so I tried the accepted solution here:
Add Fake ...
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VNC connection to headless Ubuntu workstation - black screen after login
I managed to be able to get to the logon screen of Ubuntu 16.04LTS via VNC/ssh following several nice guides on these websites:
http://machine-cycle.blogspot.com/2012/04/remote-gdm3-login-with-vnc....
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How to disable all GUI elements and boot to command prompt
Cross post from Serverfault
I have a laptop I'm running as a file server, which is running Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop. Now that summer heat is here, and because I love the environment, I'm look for all ...
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Can't get firefox to render the right size in a headless xvfb instance
I can start the xvfb instance just fine
Xvfb :1 -screen 0 800x600x24
I can then launch firefox and have it load correctly but the window is always smaller than the resolution I set during the xvfb ...
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Headless music converter with filename based on tags
I have a music collection consisting of several film soundtracks in Apple Lossless and I'd like to convert it to 48kbps OGG Vorbis in a completely different folder structure with file names in the ...
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Optimizing rarely used server installed in an always up virtual machine
I have a Ubuntu Server installation on VirtualBox since I am a Mac OS X user and I want to launch some Linux-dependent programs on Ubuntu rarely by connecting it via SSH. Therefore I want to make a ...
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Dropbox headless crashes "could not connect to display :1"
I installed dropbox from https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux as described to installed it headless. However when I try to run it I get the following error at the end ouf a list of outputs:
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How to configure xstartup for Ubuntu Budgie?
I have Ubuntu 16.04.2 installed in a virtual server (bhyve/iohyve under a headless freenas), and am trying to install Ubuntu Budgie as a desktop environment. I used:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:...
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Crashplan on headless server
I've Googled a bit and not really found anything out. I want to install Crashplan for remote upload on Crashplan+. How painless is the installation and set up?
Crashplans site is lacking a lot of ...
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