[CentOS] gnome-desktop on Centos-6.3

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

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