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

[Ken M]

Don't know.  These days my most common use case for installing CentOS would be in a headless virtual instance.  I think the base CentOS lacking any type of simple lightweight window manager is kind of a big oversight.  Not sure if that is sourced from RHEL itself.  But I know many like to set up a VNC instance even on a typically headless server and if they are like me I have always liked something like fluxbox in that case.

Ken


On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 10:47:06AM -0500, David Both wrote:
> 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.