I have installed a minimal kvm host system. I wish to provide a graphical login on the host. To this end I performed the following group installs: yum groupinstall "general purpose desktop" "x windows system" I can login on the host system as root and then run 'startx' which gives me a desktop, sort of. The top menu bar with the various tool sets is missing as is the lower status bar. I get the same result when I log in as a non privileged user. Am I missing some other package which is required to provide these? I installed gnome-desktop directly but this action produced no visible change in behaviour. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3
James B. Byrne wrote:> I have installed a minimal kvm host system. I wish to provide a > graphical login on the host. To this end I performed the following > group installs: > > yum groupinstall "general purpose desktop" "x windows system" > > I can login on the host system as root and then run 'startx' which > gives me a desktop, sort of. The top menu bar with the various tool > sets is missing as is the lower status bar. I get the same result > when I log in as a non privileged user. Am I missing some other > package which is required to provide these? I installed gnome-desktop > directly but this action produced no visible change in behaviour.Sounds almost like you've got twm running. You might need to switch window managers. mark
On Thu, October 4, 2012 10:55, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: e change in behaviour.> > Sounds almost like you've got twm running. You might need to switch > window managers. >There is however, not even the minimal title bar that twm is supposed to provide, or has that been configured out ib the default X-Windows install? In any case, how do I switch this to default to gdm for all users? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3