After installing Budgie on the server 24.04, the desktop right-click menu fails to display the terminal option

Budgie Desktop
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ENV:Ubuntu 24.04.04 server + ubuntu-budgie-desktop

first:
sudo apt install ubuntu-mate-desktop mate-terminal mate-network-manager -y
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

second:
sudo apt remove --purge ubuntu-mate-desktop lightdm mate-* libmate* -y
sudo apt autoremove --purge -y

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y ubuntu-budgie-desktop lightd

1.After installing Budgie on the server, the desktop right-click menu fails to display the terminal option,

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2. causing repeated startup errors as shown in the screenshot.
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  1. Clicking Reboot is invalid

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  2. The error logs are available in the attachment.

kern.log (57.8 KB)
auth.log (4.5 KB)
apport.log (416 字节)
syslog.txt (213.9 KB)

What’s the best installation approach? Installing the Mate desktop is more stable, while the server should primarily handle cluster computing tasks.

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You haven’t actually removed all the components of mate - there is always some parts left over after installing a full desktop like mate and then trying to remove it.

It is always better here to format the server and reinstall from scratch.

Remember ubuntu server networking is different from a regular desktop - so you’ll need to switch from systemd based networking to network manager.

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Installing Budgie on the server will create a desktop version. This may affect server stability.

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Correct - all the “ubuntu-xyz-desktop” meta packages will install a full desktop system.

In a production system you really don’t want this because it opens up the system to multiple areas of security potential vulnerabilities.

For my production ubuntu servers we don’t have a graphical interface - this greatly improves the security posture.

If you absolutely need a graphical interface then keep it as simple as possible - for example just openbox with a terminal. Don’t use a login manager - startx from a TTY. If you want a wayland minimal setup then stick with labwc or weston.

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Thank you for your guidance. The server is not available for external use, with 300GB of memory for internal network cluster computing.

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