[CentOS] Non-gnome desktops on CentOS-7

James B. Byrne byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
Mon Nov 10 14:32:17 UTC 2014


On Fri, November 7, 2014 15:41, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Op 07-11-14 om 21:13 schreef James B. Byrne:
>>>
>>> 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.
>

Yes, I understand that.  However, when one installs a 'Gnome Desktop' one in
fact gets a GUI that runs on that system.  When one installs "KDE Plasma
whatever' one does not.  If one does 'yum grouplist' on CentOS-7 there is no
'KDE Desktop' displayed as there is for CentOS-6.


>
> 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.
>

Yes, I have already discovered that if one installs Gnome first then the other
desktops begin to work as well.  I just cannot seem to get either alternative
to run if Gnome is not installed before the others.  And the semantics here
are that if I install KDE or Mate first and then install Gnome neither KDE nor
Mate can be started from the command line as I wish to.

I am scratching the CentOS-7 system and starting again with a minimal install.


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