[CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

[Keith Roberts]

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

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