In my continuing investigation of CentOS-7 I did yet another minimal install. Subsequent to that I ran yum update kernel, and then yum group install KDE.
Now, KDE installed about 480Mb of stuff, which compares favourably to Gnome's 971Mb. However, when I run startx from the command line, instead of getting a desktop I see these errors instead:
xauth: file /root/.serverauth.12462 does not exist
xinit: unable to run server "/usr/bin/X": No such file or directory
Followed by instructions on how to link "/usr/bin/X" to ones choice of display server. This seems a little awkward for a mature distro. Is it really the case that one must hand link files to get any other desktop instead of gnome? is this by design?
James B. Byrne wrote:
In my continuing investigation of CentOS-7 I did yet another minimal install. Subsequent to that I ran yum update kernel, and then yum group install KDE.
Now, KDE installed about 480Mb of stuff, which compares favourably to Gnome's 971Mb. However, when I run startx from the command line, instead of getting a desktop I see these errors instead:
xauth: file /root/.serverauth.12462 does not exist
xinit: unable to run server "/usr/bin/X": No such file or directory
Followed by instructions on how to link "/usr/bin/X" to ones choice of display server. This seems a little awkward for a mature distro. Is it really the case that one must hand link files to get any other desktop instead of gnome? is this by design?
Yes, it pretty much assumes you have a working X server, you probably ought to install at least the 'base-x' group too.
-- Rex
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