similar to: Xfce vs. VirtualBox : font size problem

Hi, I'm having a very weird problem with CentOS as a VirtualBox guest. Let me explain it step by step. tl;dr: I can install VirtualBox Guest Additions and configure a fullscreen 1280x1024 graphical resolution on a full install, but not on a reduced install with a lightweight window manager. Here's what I did. 1. Install vanilla CentOS 7 with KDE. 2. Boot to reduced 1024x768

Hi, I have CentOS 7 + Xfce + GDM installed on all our local school's desktop clients. I'd like to disable the "switch user" menu entry, since our desktop clients have a relatively limited amount of RAM. Most users tend to use the "switch user" functionality to log off, and at the end of the day, the computer has no RAM left. I know there is a way to disable this

> -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas > Kovacs > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 3:34 PM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Running COS 7.1708 on VirtualBox 5.1.28 > > Le 14/09/2017 ? 21:32, Ken Gramm a ?crit?: > > Anyone else having issues getting the VB drivers to load on 1708? >

Le 06/08/2018 ? 16:05, Robert Moskowitz a ?crit?: > But notes that this installs Gnome (which I don't want) and that instead to > > yum groupinstall ?X Window System? > > But has concerns if this installs all needed followed up with > > yum groupinstall "Xfce" > > Thing is on armhfp, I do not have ?X Window System? or "Xfce" I can partially

Le 04/01/2019 ? 09:14, Akemi Yagi a ?crit?: > There are known issues with VirtualBox and RHEL (therefore CentOS) 7.6. > > (1) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=90103 > (2) https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=90267 > > (1) is about the GuestAdditions, so this should not affect the > installation. But you were most likely hit by (2). All

Le 04/01/2019 ? 14:42, Jonathan Billings a ?crit?: > If I were running a VM on a linux system, I'd probably use > KVM/qemu/libvirt. I'm sure that was exhaustively tested. This is what I normally use. My only use for VirtualBox is making screenshots of the installer, and sometimes for a quick test, because it's easy to make a VM clone in a single click. Niki -- Microlinux -

Hi, I'm currently working on my next Linux book, which will be an elementary course about CentOS administration. I'm using VirtualBox for all the installer screenshots. Since CentOS has recently been upgraded to version 7.6, I thought I might as well base all book references on this version. So I downloaded the 7.6 1810 minimal ISO and started a fresh installation in VirtualBox. I'm

Le 14/09/2017 ? 21:32, Ken Gramm a ?crit?: > Anyone else having issues getting the VB drivers to load on 1708? > > > I keep gettting an "Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel..." message. > > > I do have kernel-devel installed and I had no issues running 1611 on the same host. I think you mean VirtualBox 5.1.26. And yes, there's some

Le 14/11/2016 ? 17:33, Patrick Hess a ?crit : > That could be possible, of course. On FreeBSD, with the keyboard layout > configured the old-fashioned way via /etc/X11/xorg.conf, KDE does respect > the system-wide settings. I would expect KDE to behave the same on CentOS. > However, I only had to deal with easy layouts like "de" and "us" so far; > Swiss-French

Hi, Our desktop clients are running CentOS 7 with the Xfce desktop from EPEL. The CR repository is enabled. A few days ago I launched an update, which brought in close to 1 GB of packages. I had some weird problems on two clients. One is an old Dell Optiplex 330 with a legacy video card. [root at cybermule:/] # lspci | grep -i vga 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Hi, I recently installed CentOS 7 + KDE 4.14 on my main workstation, and overall I'm very happy with it. Okular seems to have trouble with some PDF files. I'm using the Dolibarr application to generate invoices. I can view the resulting PDF file OK, but when I try to print it, I get a blank page. A few days ago I had a similar problem with a PDF file generated from a french

Le 17/10/2019 ? 16:08, Johnny Hughes a ?crit?: > Is gnome3 really that bad :D There's an easy way to figure that out. Our local school has been 100 % GNU/Linux since 2010 (when we first installed CentOS 5 on desktops and servers). On the latest count, I have a hundred users there. Over the years, I've tried a variety of desktop environments, from GNOME 2.x on CentOS 5.x and CentOS

Le 14/11/2016 ? 12:49, Patrick Hess a ?crit : > XFCE user here, so I'm not sure if KDE tries to enforce its own settings > with > regard to the keyboard layout, but have you tried (as root): > > localectl set-x11-keymap <whatever name the Swiss-French layout > might have> pc105 nodeadkey > > This changes the X11 keyboard settings permanently for all users on

Hi, I have a CentOS 7 (GNOME) desktop installed as a VirtualBox guest on my Slackware64 14.1 workstation, to fiddle with it. Guest Additions are installed and configured OK, and 3D acceleration is working too. In its default configuration, the GNOME desktop under CentOS shows an "expos?" (I don't know how you call this), a list of all open windows, when you move the mouse cursor to

Hi, A couple months ago, I migrated our local school (two servers, 20 desktop clients) from Slackware 14.1 to CentOS 7. The desktop clients are running a customized lightweight desktop based on Xfce: https://blog.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-xfce-centos-7/ Home directories are all on the server, and authentication is centralized. Everything works fine so far. With Slackware I had found a

Hi, I had the same kind of problem after upgrade with xfce, weird screen artefacts etc I just uninstalled compton and installed it again. Fixed it. You can give a try. 2018?5?10?(?) 11:37 Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr>: > Hi, > > Our desktop clients are running CentOS 7 with the Xfce desktop from > EPEL. The CR repository is enabled. A few days ago I launched an

Hi, Our local school has a 100 % CentOS network on servers and desktops. Until recently, we were using a highly customized Xfce desktop environment. Last week I decided to migrate all desktops from Xfce to GNOME, which went quite well. Now I have to sand down some rough edges. The secretary complained that she can't use the numeric keypad as before. She's using LibreOffice Calc a lot,

Hi, I'm currently moving all our local school's desktop clients from Slackware 14.1 to CentOS 7 + Xfce. Right now I'm fine-tuning the default user profile. I have a problem with XScreenSaver. The application per se works very well. Only there's a hard-coded pop-up window that reminds the user that he's not running the latest version. So, if I'm running version 5.36 as

Le 03/11/2016 ? 09:31, Sorin Srbu a ?crit : > Something like this maybe? > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/69305/how-do-i-disable-the-calendar-events-se > ction-in-gnome-shells-clock-applet Exactly. Except this doesn't seem to work under CentOS 7. The mentioned file doesn't exist here. As for the "Nothing To Do" extension, it's beta software, and I don't

Hi, Some time ago I installed CentOS 7 on an older MacBook Pro for a client, since she couldn't install a more recent version of Mac OS X on it. The installation was a bit of an adventure, and I wrote a little article about it: https://blog.microlinux.fr/centos-7-macbook-pro/ I made this installation about a year ago, and the only thing I changed since then is replacing Xfce by GNOME. I