On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 02:01 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Steve D'Aprano > <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Remember the context here: we're replying to a thread discussing somebody >> who is running Ubuntu with a GUI desktop environment. Of course there are >> *some* Linux systems which don't run a GUI at all, but you can't >> double-click on files on such systems, and they aren't Ubuntu, so they >> aren't relevant. > > Been a long time since I had an Ubuntu, but is it really the case that > you can't install Ubuntu without a GUI?
I mispoke -- I meant something like "they aren't whatever Ububtu GUI the OP has installed". There is, apparently, headless Ubuntu, but it isn't clear to me whether they install X (or Mir, Wayland or some other alternative) or not. E.g. this: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/ubuntu-gnome-vnc-headless-server/ seems to suggest to me that X.org is already installed, I can see X utils being installed as a recommended package but I couldn't spot X being added as a dependency. So my *guess* is that even headless Ubuntu server includes an X server. (Or possibly Mir.) -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list