Non-gnome Desktops On CentOS-7
Is there a writeup somewhere detailing how one installs a non-gnome desktop?
I have installed both KDE and Mate and both fail with the same error. (EE) no screens found.
I am a bit bewildered that neither the official KDE from CentOS nor the semi-official mate from epel pull in as part of their install the Xserver. I
am also bothered by the fact that installing a desktop other than gnome 3 does not in fact provide one that can be started from the command line.
I am not trying anything complicated here. I just want to install a working desktop that is not gnome. Is this possible on CentOS7?
5 thoughts on - Non-gnome Desktops On CentOS-7
Op 07-11-14 om 21:13 schreef James B. Byrne:
Hello James,
the Mate website
http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download
provides instructions for CentOS7.
Greetings, Johan
I installed the live cd, then set up the epel repo and installed mate from there.
There is never any reason to assume that the display (needing the Xserver) is on the same machine as the desktop or application being displayed. X has always worked just fine over networks.
yum install epel-release yum groupinstall ‘MATE Desktop’
I haven’t tried that on a machine that does not also have the gnome desktop installed, though. But both KDE and MATE should be alternatives you can choose at login if you have all of them installed.
KDE runs fine over here on CentOS 7. No problems whatsoever and it is on older hardware as well.
Looks lovely!
-George
Yes, I understand that. However, when one installs a ‘Gnome Desktop’ one in fact gets a GUI that runs on that system. When one installs “KDE Plasma whatever’ one does not. If one does ‘yum grouplist’ on CentOS-7 there is no
‘KDE Desktop’ displayed as there is for CentOS-6.
Yes, I have already discovered that if one installs Gnome first then the other desktops begin to work as well. I just cannot seem to get either alternative to run if Gnome is not installed before the others. And the semantics here are that if I install KDE or Mate first and then install Gnome neither KDE nor Mate can be started from the command line as I wish to.
I am scratching the CentOS-7 system and starting again with a minimal install.