Sorry, I run gdm on Springdale 8 and Alma 8. I'm not doing much work on any RHEL 8 clone ATM, I prefer the longer support of C7! :-( Martin On 11/02/2021 10:26, Simon Matter wrote: > Thanks Martin, so the "Xfce" group definition in EPEL is obviously broken. > > Looks like XFCE doesn't get much love in EL8. Do you or anyone else have > suggestions for a lightweight desktop environment to use on EL8 apart from > XFCE? One which is supported well by EPEL? > > Thanks, > Simon > >> Hi Simon, >> >> I'm running XFCE under CentOS 8 as a VM under CentOS 7. I've just had a >> quick look and this is what I see (see attachment). You'll need to view >> it in a wide terminal. >> >> HTH, >> Martin >> >> On 11/02/2021 09:24, Simon Matter wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is anyone here running XFCE desktop on CentOS 8? If so, how did you >>> install it? >>> >>> I just tried to install it from EPEL and this is what I got: >>> >>> # dnf group install Xfce >>> Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:01 ago on Thu 11 Feb 2021 10:05:47 >>> CET. >>> No match for group package "NetworkManager-gnome" >>> No match for group package "thunar-archive-plugin" >>> >>> I'm unable to find packages for NetworkManager-gnome or >>> thunar-archive-plugin anywhere in CentOS 8 or EPEL 8. >>> >>> Did I miss something? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Simon >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >> >> -- >> J Martin Rushton MBCS >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > -- J Martin Rushton MBCS