On Fri, November 7, 2014 15:41, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Op 07-11-14 om 21:13 schreef James B. Byrne:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
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.
>
> 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.
>
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.
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