[Arm-dev] Attempt to install Xfce by hand

Thu Oct 18 20:24:50 UTC 2018
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>


On 10/18/18 4:20 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 10/18/2018 03:07 PM, Fred Gleason wrote:
>> On Oct 18, 2018, at 15:55, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org
>> <mailto:johnny at centos.org>> wrote:
>>
>>> 1) a gnome desktop install .. but afterwards only use xfce
>> FWIW, XFCE does work from a Minimal install without needing a prior
>> installation of GNOME on xf86_64. I know this because XFCE is my
>> standard desktop (GNOME 3 being the Resource Hog of the Century that it
>> is). My steps to get there are:
>>
>> yum install epel-release
>> yum groupinstall “X window system”
>> yum groupinstall “XFCE”
>> systemctl set-target graphical.target
>>
> Thanks Fred.
>
> OK .. I can duplicate that on a VM and then create a filelist we can use
> to install on arm maybe figure out what gets installed that is different.

I would think the set-target is really not needed.  I did not need it on 
my cubietruck, but I did power cycle between install and testing.