[CentOS] Back to Xfce

Mon Aug 6 15:33:38 UTC 2018
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>


On 08/06/2018 11:11 AM, Tony Schreiner wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:55 AM Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Nicolas,
>>
>> Thank you!  But I am Dyslexic and very mono-linguistic; at least I could
>> read the actual commands, if not all the wonderful comments...
>>
>> On 08/06/2018 10:26 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
>>> Le 06/08/2018 à 16:05, Robert Moskowitz a écrit :
>>>> But notes that this installs Gnome (which I don't want) and that
>> instead to
>>>> yum groupinstall “X Window System”
>>>>
>>>> But has concerns if this installs all needed followed up with
>>>>
>>>> yum groupinstall "Xfce"
>>>>
>>>> Thing is on armhfp, I do not have “X Window System” or "Xfce"
>>> I can partially answer your question, since I'm running Xfce both on my
>>> workstation and my laptop.
>> I switched to Xfce with Fedora 20 and have put up with Gnome on my
>> Centos systems so far.
>>
>>> Here's my custom script that installs a full-blow bells-and-whistles
>>> Xfce desktop from a minimal CentOS installation, without any unnecessary
>>> packages.
>>>
>>>
>> https://github.com/kikinovak/centos-7-desktop-xfce/blob/master/postinstall.sh
>>> Once you've installed the "X Window System" group and you invoke "yum
>>> groupinstall Xfce", the group consists of not much more than a dozen
>>> explicit core packages (Thunar, xfdesktop, xfce4-panel, etc.) and then -
>>> of course - all the dependencies are installed. Give this a spin on an
>>> x86_64 machine and then write down this relatively short list.
>> I don't have an x86_64 machine with Centos on it.  I would have to play
>> with Qemu VM for centos on this Fedora 28 notebook.  All my servers
>> (other than the ClearOS one) are ARM.
>>
>> The armhfp repos (including epel) do not have either the "X Windows
>> System" or "Xfce" (and any sub-groups that calls).  So I am asking for
>> the content of those groups.  Hopefully the source scripts so I can
>> modify them (as needed) for armhfp.
>>
>> It would seem that there is a source file somewhere in the source tree
>> with the script(s) contents.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
> In the file
> 5307666922f0cd10058b04791f3f596cfcaab48df6fdd6cf847f349bd455e0bd-comps-Everything.x86_64.xml
> from the repodata in the Epel 7 repository there is the following for the
> Xfce group, is this helpful to you?

Yes!  I can pull out the rpm list and build a file to feed into yum.

Can you point out the URL for all the groups?  I am also going to need 
the "X Windows System" group, I believe (and should compare it to the 
Server GUI group).

Thanks

>
>      <packagelist>
>
>        <packagereq type="mandatory">Thunar</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="mandatory">xfce-utils</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="mandatory">xfce4-panel</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="mandatory">xfce4-session</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="mandatory">xfce4-settings</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="mandatory">xfconf</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="mandatory">xfdesktop</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="mandatory">xfwm4</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">NetworkManager-gnome</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">gdm</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">leafpad</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">openssh-askpass</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">orage</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">polkit-gnome</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">thunar-archive-plugin</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">thunar-volman</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">tumbler</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">xfce4-appfinder</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">xfce4-icon-theme</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">xfce4-power-manager</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">xfce4-session-engines</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">xfce4-terminal</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="default">xfwm4-theme-nodoka</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq type="optional">xfwm4-themes</packagereq>
>
>        <packagereq requires="pinentry"
> type="conditional">pinentry-gtk</packagereq>
>
>      </packagelist>
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