On 2014-11-10, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > So, > > 1. I installed a minimal CentOS-7. > 2. I then installed epel-release. > 3. I then installed etckeeper from epel. > 4. I then ran yum update -y. > 5. I then rebooted (kernel update). > 6. I then ran "yum groups install "X Window System" > 7. I then ran "yum groups "MATE Desktop" > 8. I then ran startx. Can you confirm line 7 above? It might be a typo. > > Result: Graphical destop wallpaper appears, spinning disc in center for 2-3 > seconds then this: > > X.Org X Server 1.15.0 > Release Date: 2013-12-27 --- SNIP --- > So, what is going one? Does this Desktop work for anyone else without gnome3 > installed? What am I leaving out? Am I suppose run some sort of X > configuration program? > Try including the session manager in the startx invocation, e.g., startx /usr/bin/mate-session (Or whaterever the MATE session manager is called. I'm guessing the above by analogy with gnome-session.) -- Liam