[TriLUG] How does one install LXDE or Xfce on CentOS?

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:59:48 -0500 (EST)
William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:

> I wonder if he's trying CentOS as a proxy for my query about RHEL the 
> other day.
> 
> William Sutton

Not yours, but someone's.

About a week ago I had an energetic discussion with someone (can't
remember whom or what list or channel) claiming that my replacing the
init on Fedora would not be "taking the fight to Redhat". So I figured
"screw it, I'll switch out the init on CentOS, we all *know* that's
Redhat."

I couldn't have possibly suspected that the only desktops I could get
on CentOS without hoopjumping were Gnome and KDE. I mean, who does
that? Every Linux distro and BSD I ever tried had either LXDE or Xfce,
and all of them had Openbox, all with just a simple apt-get install or
packman -S. I can't work with Gnome because of its weird interface, and
KDE isn't conducive to the seven year old experimental computer I'm
using. And it's hard to replace an init when you're having trouble
running a browser, a Gvim, and a terminal. Ugh! Also, I doubt I'd ever
switch to a Redhat derivative, so I don't want to spend a lot of time
learning yum.

So I'll see if it's easier to put LXDE on Fedora, after which I'll
switch out the init system.

SteveT

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