Re: [CentOS] Non-Gnome desktop

2014-11-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:34 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > >> >> Try including the session manager in the startx invocation, e.g., >> >> startx /usr/bin/mate-session >> >> (Or whaterever the MATE session manager is called. I'm guessing the >> above by analogy with gnome-session.) >> > > Yes!

Re: [CentOS] Non-Gnome desktop

2014-11-11 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, November 10, 2014 15:00, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2014-11-10, James B. Byrne wrote: > > > Try including the session manager in the startx invocation, e.g., > > startx /usr/bin/mate-session > > (Or whaterever the MATE session manager is called. I'm guessing the > above by analogy wit

Re: [CentOS] Non-Gnome desktop

2014-11-11 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, November 10, 2014 15:00, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2014-11-10, James B. Byrne wrote: >> So, >> >> 1. I installed a minimal CentOS-7. >> 2. I then installed epel-release. >> 3. I then installed etckeeper from epel. >> 4. I then ran yum update -y. >> 5. I then rebooted (kernel update). >> 6.

Re: [CentOS] Non-Gnome desktop

2014-11-11 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, November 10, 2014 14:57, Frank Cox wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:35:05 -0500 > James B. Byrne wrote: > >> Does this Desktop work for anyone else without gnome3 >> installed? What am I leaving out? Am I suppose run some sort of X >> configuration program? > > I've done this a few times

Re: [CentOS] Non-Gnome desktop

2014-11-10 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, November 10, 2014 14:42, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Hi, James, > >One thing that puzzles me: > > James B. Byrne wrote: >> So, >> >> 1. I installed a minimal CentOS-7. >> 2. I then installed epel-release. >> 3. I then installed etckeeper from epel. >> 4. I then ran yum update -y. >> 5. I

Re: [CentOS] Non-Gnome desktop

2014-11-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-11-10, James B. Byrne wrote: > So, > > 1. I installed a minimal CentOS-7. > 2. I then installed epel-release. > 3. I then installed etckeeper from epel. > 4. I then ran yum update -y. > 5. I then rebooted (kernel update). > 6. I then ran "yum groups install "X Window System" > 7. I then ra

Re: [CentOS] Non-Gnome desktop

2014-11-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:35:05 -0500 James B. Byrne wrote: > Does this Desktop work for anyone else without gnome3 > installed? What am I leaving out? Am I suppose run some sort of X > configuration program? I've done this a few times now, and it's worked every time: Install the Centos 7 Live C

[CentOS] Non-Gnome desktop

2014-11-10 Thread James B. Byrne
So, 1. I installed a minimal CentOS-7. 2. I then installed epel-release. 3. I then installed etckeeper from epel. 4. I then ran yum update -y. 5. I then rebooted (kernel update). 6. I then ran "yum groups install "X Window System" 7. I then ran "yum groups "MATE Desktop" 8. I then ran startx. Res