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

[Ken M]

Update to earlier post.  TWM is in the epel as well.

On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 01:42:13AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> 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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