On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Scott Robbins wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI
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.
On Centos 5.6 I'm running xfce4, which is reasonable.
[root]# yum groupinfo "*" > Centos6-groups.txt
should give you a listing of all Centos6 groups in a text file for refering to later.
HTH
Keith Roberts
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