James B. Byrne wrote: > I have installed a minimal kvm host system. I wish to provide a > graphical login on the host. To this end I performed the following > group installs: > > yum groupinstall "general purpose desktop" "x windows system" > > I can login on the host system as root and then run 'startx' which > gives me a desktop, sort of. The top menu bar with the various tool > sets is missing as is the lower status bar. I get the same result > when I log in as a non privileged user. Am I missing some other > package which is required to provide these? I installed gnome-desktop > directly but this action produced no visible change in behaviour. Sounds almost like you've got twm running. You might need to switch window managers. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos