On Oct 18, 2018, at 15:55, Johnny Hughes <johnny@centos.org> wrote:

1) a gnome desktop install .. but afterwards only use xfce

FWIW, XFCE does work from a Minimal install without needing a prior installation of GNOME on xf86_64. I know this because XFCE is my standard desktop (GNOME 3 being the Resource Hog of the Century that it is). My steps to get there are:

yum install epel-release 
yum groupinstall “X window system”
yum groupinstall “XFCE”
systemctl set-target graphical.target

Cheers!


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