On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:33:10PM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 7/11/11, Keith Beeby k.beeby@albion.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI
If I'm not mistaken, the "Server" option does not include the GUI so you'll have to install the GUI group manually as others have suggested.
If I'm not mistaken, (not making fun of Emmanuel, just the same caveat), neither server nor web server have a GUI by default. IMLTHO (less than humble) this is something they should have done a long time ago, (though I would like to see either flux or openbox available as alternative--on the other hand, that's purely personal preference, and can be safely ignored--just, if I do, for whatever reason, want a GUI on a server, I'd much prefer a *box (or other--twm is available actually, but I don't like it), I'd like something light.
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I have to agree with Scott.
A "lightweight" server option is a long-awaited-and-much-deserved-feature but it would be nice if we could still get a very lightweight X - even if it doesn't run automatically. I often need to use X for odd stuff which only works on X - like using Firefox to check if a specific feature on a website, hosted on the server works fine. Or like using gparted to get the extra features which fdisk doesn't offer.
Just a thought.......