A Graphical User Interface is a human-computer interface which predominantly uses images to communicate state to the user, and often involves use of a pointing device for receiving input.
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Set up linux with both GUI and CLI
I want to know if it's possible to install ubuntu server (if there is an other Linux distribution that solves this I'm open to suggestion) with both GUI and CLI so that i can choose to boot it with either GUI or CLI.
Background
I'm new to Linux…

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How to configure RHEL so users can access an app GUI remotely
I have an application installed in my RHEL6 box that has a GUI (AppGui.sh). My problem is that a few non-tech users would like to access this GUI remotely. I've tried several guides over the internet but I still cant make it work.
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Relating ping to perceived browser GUI response
We periodically get complaints of poor GUI (browser page) response that we need to explore. I am looking for a quick and cheap first check to see if the issue is network latency, or server performance. Has anyone encountered any discussion of ping…

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Can't get into Juniper Networks Netscreen Web interface
Have a Netscreen that appears to be functioning correctly (it's in production and has been for several years), but yet is not allowing me into the Web interface on port 80 or 443 (also tried 8080). Tried telneting to 22 and 23 as well. Any attempt…

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Debian Simple Gui for adding/removing users for protective directories
We have a hosted site with a directory that is password protected.
I need to have a user who knows very little about computers, maintain the users that have access to this directory. The list is going to get big, according to our customer…

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Ping/traceroute tool for OSX
Any suggestions for a network monitoring tool for OS X that can do the same functionality like Axence Nettools.
Basically, I want to be able to track ping history and view them as a report. Other nifty features like traceroute, port scanning, etc.…

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Best/Fastest way to access desktop GUI on a remote Ubuntu server
I've been using X11 and Xming, but it's much too laggy for practical use.

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Interactive two panels diff for *nix console?
Could you please advise me about interactive two panels diff tool, something like http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/, but for *nix console/ncurses
or maybe somebody knows how DiffMerge can be run over SSH connection seamlessly?

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is it possible to access GUI interface of a remote linux machine simultaneously from different client machines with different user logins?
I have a server running RHEL 5, I want to provide GUI interface to all users of this machine, similar to access through ssh from a remote machine but with GUI interface.
Is it possible ...?

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Debian 5 Display resolution out of range
After installing Debian 5 on a Dual-Core Xeon machine, my display connected to the NVIDIA Quadro FX display card shows me an "out of range" error after the boot-up completes. I see the terminal text (login prompt) though.
This is mostly because my…

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GUI .ar unarchiver for Mac?
Even though it's extremly old, the .ar archive format is still in use in multiple places, like Debian .deb packages. But I have not been able to find any graphical unarchiving tools for a Mac. Does anyone know of a good GUI .ar archive unarchiving…

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Text-based package manager GUI for CentOS
I come from Debian Linux. In that OS I used aptitude for a neat ncurses text-based GUI package manager. What exists for CentOS that is the same?

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using VPS to access internet from china
I'll be moving to mainland China soon. I have a vps with a 1gbit connection in Amsterdam that is running CentOS. I'm not an expert on servers but would it be possible to connect to my vps from China and use the VPS's ip to visit websites?
I.e turn…

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Access remote server with Nautilus through double SSH tunnel using SSHFS
I'm trying to access my work computer from home. We are supposed to SSH into a server, say ssh.company.com and from there ssh into an xhost to to work, say xhost04.company.com. xhost04 is not directly accessible. How can I browse files on xhost04…

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Disable gdmgreeter in RHEL 5?
I would like to disable the "gdmgreeting" application that is a graphical frontend, as I only want console interfaces. This application runs on vt7 and restarts every time after I manually kill it. I have no desktop environment installed (gnome,…

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