On Mon, November 10, 2014 15:00, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2014-11-10, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
Try including the session manager in the startx invocation, e.g.,
startx /usr/bin/mate-session
(Or whaterever the MATE session manager is called. I'm guessing the above by analogy with gnome-session.)
Yes! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Now, to test this I removed Gnome3 rather than start over with a fresh install. So it is possible that installing Gnome Desktop makes some configuration change of which I am unaware that permits Mate to work thereafter. However, using startx /usr/bin/mate-session does indeed bring up the Mate desktop without Gnome3 installed.
This whole exercise in frustration was due to the fact that I am singularly unimpressed with the Gnome3 experience. Others have made all the arguments and comments respecting its opaqueness and inflexibility that I can think of; and quite a few more besides. So, suffice to say, it will not be installed here.
What I cannot understand is why an Enterprise Distro is packaging an evidently tablet based GUI to begin with. Where do they think RHEL gets installed; cell phones?
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:34 AM, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
Try including the session manager in the startx invocation, e.g.,
startx /usr/bin/mate-session(Or whaterever the MATE session manager is called. I'm guessing the above by analogy with gnome-session.)
Yes! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Now, to test this I removed Gnome3 rather than start over with a fresh install. So it is possible that installing Gnome Desktop makes some configuration change of which I am unaware that permits Mate to work thereafter. However, using startx /usr/bin/mate-session does indeed bring up the Mate desktop without Gnome3 installed.
This whole exercise in frustration was due to the fact that I am singularly unimpressed with the Gnome3 experience. Others have made all the arguments and comments respecting its opaqueness and inflexibility that I can think of; and quite a few more besides. So, suffice to say, it will not be installed here.
What I cannot understand is why an Enterprise Distro is packaging an evidently tablet based GUI to begin with. Where do they think RHEL gets installed; cell phones?
I've always heard that managing software developers is like herding cats - so the direction goes more or less toward what someone wants to write instead of what would be most useful. I mostly run remote sessions under x2go, where gnome3 won't work at all so I'm using MATE on CentOS 7. But I don't really object to having the gnome desktop installed if it brings along settings and maybe some applications to help things work. Disk space is cheap.
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