I would like my server to boot to command line by default but load a GUI when I need one.
I have a virtual machine set up just for testing and I got the standard UNITY GUI installed on it no problem. I also modified the /etc/default/grub file to boot to text mode. It wasn't working at first and would still boot to the GUI by default but after some research I found that disabling lightdm got me back to the normal terminal login. My issue is I can not launch back into the full GUI anymore. I can use the command 'startx' to launch into a pretty much featureless GUI but that doesn't really help me.