I recently needed to run an application that was GUI only on a remote, headless server. After I messed with X-Forwarding for long enough to get really frustrated (which wasn’t long) I figured out how to get a desktop running running that I could log into and run the app. Here’s how. First, SSH into your server and install the tightVNC server and the Xfce desktop. On Ubuntu 20.03 and Debian 10 the following command will install these for you:
