James B. Byrne wrote:
> I have installed a minimal kvm host system. I wish to provide a
> graphical login on the host. To this end I performed the following
> group installs:
>
> yum groupinstall "general purpose desktop" "x windows system"
>
> I can login on the host system as root and then run 'startx' which
> gives me a desktop, sort of. The top menu bar with the various tool
> sets is missing as is the lower status bar. I get the same result
> when I log in as a non privileged user. Am I missing some other
> package which is required to provide these? I installed gnome-desktop
> directly but this action produced no visible change in behaviour.
Sounds almost like you've got twm running. You might need to switch window
managers.
mark