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I am wondering if there is a possibility to modify Ubuntu (ver. 14 although I'd update to 15 if it helps in the effort) in such a way that you boot into the terminal rather than the desktop.

I am not talking about removing the X-environment altogether. If one were to launch, say, Firefox, I'd like a window to appear on top of my terminal session and when all windows are closed, I'd like to return to said terminal.

Is this possible?

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You could run a terminal and window in the background and force it under every other window. This essentially replaces the desktop with your terminal window.

This is something I've done before to help another user with a slightly different problem but it should apply just as well here. See that post for detail but all you need to do is run the following at login:

gnome-terminal -x sh -c "wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,fullscreen,below; wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,skip_taskbar; bash"

You can edit your Gnome Terminal profile to make it look better too. And there are other terminal emulators out there which may suit this purpose better. Play around.

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