CentOS 8: Change Desktop At Display Manager
In a new install of CentOS 8, I installed the xfce4 packages from EPEL. Here’s what dnf says I have
[pauljohn32@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
2 thoughts on - CentOS 8: Change Desktop At Display Manager
What appears in that list is controlled by .desktop files dropped into
/usr/share/xsessions. For XFCE this is:
/usr/share/xsessions/xfce.desktop
provided by xfce4-session – which you have. So, I’m not sure what is up. Perhaps need a reboot? I presume this is with gdm?
Sometimes I find that I have to restart gdm in this situation.