KDE runs fine over here on CentOS 7. No problems whatsoever and it is on older hardware as well. Looks lovely! -George On 11/07/2014 03:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Johan Vermeulen > <jvermeulen at cawdekempen.be> wrote: >> Op 07-11-14 om 21:13 schreef James B. Byrne: >>> Is there a writeup somewhere detailing how one installs a non-gnome >>> desktop? >>> I have installed both KDE and Mate and both fail with the same error. >>> (EE) no >>> screens found. >>> >>> I am a bit bewildered that neither the official KDE from centos nor the >>> semi-official mate from epel pull in as part of their install the Xserver. > There is never any reason to assume that the display (needing the > Xserver) is on the same machine as the desktop or application being > displayed. X has always worked just fine over networks. > >>> I >>> am also bothered by the fact that installing a desktop other than gnome 3 >>> does >>> not in fact provide one that can be started from the command line. >>> >>> I am not trying anything complicated here. I just want to install a >>> working >>> desktop that is not gnome. Is this possible on CentOS7? >>> >>> >> Hello James, >> >> the Mate website >> >> http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download >> >> provides instructions for Centos7. > yum install epel-release > yum groupinstall 'MATE Desktop' > > I haven't tried that on a machine that does not also have the gnome > desktop installed, though. But both KDE and MATE should be > alternatives you can choose at login if you have all of them > installed. >