m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Nux! wrote:
On 05.10.2012 14:31, Nux! wrote:
On 05.10.2012 14:05, James B. Byrne wrote:
So what is it that I am missing? What other step is required to get my 'normal' gnome desktop with the utilities ans such displayed in the title bar?
Try: yum groupinstall "Desktop" "Desktop Platform" "General Purpose Desktop"
Btw, you can't really have "minimal" AND "gnome" ... :-)
<snip> Yeah... they keep changing the group names, for no good reason AFAIK. For example, between 5 and 6, they changed KDE from "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" to "KDE Desktop". Note that we groupinstall "X Window System" and Desktop, and *then* the KDE; I'd assume gnome was the same.
mark, confirmed gnome disliker (and hater of gnome 3)
If I require a minimal desktop in CentOS 6, I usually use the net install ISO & when the time comes, just select 'minimal desktop' & there's a small(ish) gnome desktop installed but without all the major cruft.
Granted this minimal desktop does include Firefox but then again, if I want a desktop environment, I usually want Firefox.
Cheers,
Phil...