[CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

Mon Jul 11 15:52:41 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>> 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:
>>
>>> > 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.
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> automatically. I often need to use X for odd stuff which only works on
> X - like using Firefox to check if a specific feature on a website,
> hosted on the server works fine. Or like using gparted to get the
> extra features which fdisk doesn't offer.

I regularly run ssh -X server, and run firefox remotely.

  mark "http://localhost:631