On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Scott Robbins wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Scott Robbins <scottro at 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 at 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------