I have downloaded and installed the desktop version of armbian on my Orange PI+ 2e and I have disabled the desktop and gpu with armbian-config as i only access the device through ssh. However I can't figure out how to re enable the gui of armbian so i can use vnc to access my server

Go to armbian-config and enable it, but for at least for XRDP you don't need a running display manager.

I remembered there used to be a display toggle however i cant find it anymore?

Perhaps there are some bugs in the config. I'll check. You can enable it this way:

sed -i "s/^NODM_ENABLED=.*/NODM_ENABLED=true/" /etc/default/nodm && service nodm start

 

It seems I have to re enable the HDMI/GPU under h3consumption first before the enable desktop option appears

 

edit. I tried doing the same on my other orange pi. Did not show the desktop option weird