On Sun, 19 Jan, 2020 at 13:21:28 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > In a new install of Centos 8, I installed the xfce4 packages from EPEL. > Here's what dnf says I have > > [pauljohn32 at localhost ~]$ dnf list *xfce4* > Last metadata expiration check: 0:25:19 ago > Installed Packages > libxfce4ui.x86_64 > libxfce4ui-devel.x86_64 > libxfce4util.x86_64 > libxfce4util-devel.x86_64 > xfce4-about.x86_64 > xfce4-battery-plugin.x86_64 > xfce4-panel.x86_64 > xfce4-panel-devel.x86_64 > xfce4-places-plugin.x86_64 > xfce4-screenshooter.x86_64 > xfce4-screenshooter-plugin.x86_64 > xfce4-session.x86_64 > xfce4-settings.x86_64 > xfce4-systemload-plugin.x86_64 > xfce4-terminal.x86_64 > > I log out and try to use XFCE4 at log in. I cannot find a way to choose > it. I was guessing this would be like Centos 7. On the display manager, > after I put in my user name, there is the little * by the password. When I > do that, I see choices with names like > > Wayland > Classic > X11 > > but I don't see XFCE4 session or similar. > > I am guessing I missed an XFCE4 package from EPEL? > > pj > Sometimes I find that I have to restart gdm in this situation.