KDE runs fine over here on CentOS 7. No problems whatsoever
and it is on older hardware as well.
Looks lovely!
-George
On 11/07/2014 03:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Johan Vermeulen
> <jvermeulen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Op 07-11-14 om 21:13 schreef James B. Byrne:
>>> 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.
> 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.
>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>> Hello James,
>>
>> the Mate website
>>
>> http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download
>>
>> provides instructions for Centos7.
> 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.
>
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