How To Set Up GUI On Amazon EC2 Ubuntu server
refer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25657596/how-to-set-up-gui-on-amazon-ec2-ubuntu-server
Following are the steps to setup the GUI
Create new user with password login
sudo useradd -m awsgui
sudo passwd awsgui
sudo usermod -aG admin awsgui
sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config # edit line "PasswordAuthentication" to yes
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
Setting up ui based ubuntu machine on AWS.
In security group open port 5901. Then ssh to the server instance. Run following commands to install ui and vnc server:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install vnc4server
Then run following commands and enter the login password for vnc connection:
su - awsgui
vncserver
vncserver -kill :1
vim /home/awsgui/.vnc/xstartup
Note:
If ** vncserver** is run at first time, you will see some error. It's no matter. Go on the command after it.
Then hit the Insert key, scroll around the text file with the keyboard arrows, and delete the pound (#) sign from the beginning of the two lines under the line that says "Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop." And on the second line add "sh" so the line reads
exec sh /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.
Mac VNC client can be downloaded from here: http://www.realvnc.com/download/get/1286/
However, my vnc viewer gives me grey screen when I connect to it. And I found this Ask Ubuntu link to solve that.
The only difference with previous answer is you need to install these extra packages:
sudo apt-get install gnome-panel gnome-settings-daemon metacity nautilus gnome-terminal
And use this ~/.vnc/xstartup file:
#!/bin/sh
export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
gnome-panel &
gnome-settings-daemon &
metacity &
nautilus &
gnome-terminal &
Everything else is the same.
Tested on EC2 Ubuntu 16.01 LTS.