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

[David Both]

This thread brings up a question in my mind. Will the split between server and 
workstation in Fedora find its way downstream to RHEL and CentOS as well? Might 
this lack of desktop options in CentOS be the precursor to that?

On 01/01/2015 10:42 AM, Ken M wrote:
> 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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