It's only as lightweight as the number of widgets you opt to install with it.
The question that I still have is what is the desired outcome? What are your requirements, and what is the goal and the purpose thereof? On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 4:07 PM Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > > More great suggestions, Tilghman. > > I truly think my biggest roadblock is that the system(s) in question are > CentOS 7.[2,3] and don't really want to be updated to 7.8. My trying to > muck around with things yum only makes this worse. > > My progress with XFCE is useful. That I may have to re-install a couple > of things and readjust xrdp is par for the course. > > Last I heard, XFCE was lighter weight than Gnome anyway. > > Howard > > On 7/8/20 4:01 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote: > > Another possible approach. I know you're trying to convert, but the > > key is to get the full list of packages. > > > > So you might start with a different guest, with GNOME-from-the-start, > > and then grab a list of the packages, then grab the same list of > > packages from your starting machine, and compare. > > > > On the machine you're trying to convert, add all the packages that > > aren't already there. You may still have some differences with > > configuration, but that might get you to the point of a functional > > GNOME. > > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 2:46 PM Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Follow up from the western front... > >> > >> Tilghman's suggestion of getting <whatever> to work before removing KDE > >> was good advice. Gnome came out to the same broken end either way; an > >> admittedly small sample size. I have been able to replace KDE with XFCE > >> - mostly. The xrdp config is still messed up, which isn't saying much... > >> > >> Just wondering, has anybody seen or done anything with guacamole from > >> apache <https://guacamole.apache.org/>?? Seems an alternative to xrdp. > >> > >> Now, if we could just make GUI a true client/server system where the > >> presentation work is done on the desktop side. > >> > >> Howard > >> > >> On 7/1/20 6:08 PM, Howard White wrote: > >>> Many thanks for the rebound, Brian. > >>> > >>> Really didn't notice which of the ?dm programs was there before I > >>> started but I definitely see gdm there after the Gnome install. > >>> > >>> And before anybody gets too concerned, I'm working on a copy of a > >>> copy... I may delete this copy and gen it again to retrace my steps > >>> more carefully. That yum erase kde-runtime went as apparently cleanly > >>> as it did is a good start. I need to spend more time on the system post > >>> erase, pre groupinstall to take better stock of what is there. > >>> > >>> Howard > >>> > >>> On 7/1/20 5:06 PM, Brian H. Ward wrote: > >>>> Did removing KDE get rid of sddm but now gdm/gdm3 is not there to take > >>>> its place? Been a while since I've messed w/ RHEL/CentOS, but some > >>>> distros keep the xdm (login manager) out of the desktop metapackages > >>>> so they don't collide (if you want a machine capable or running either > >>>> KDE or GNOME). > >>>> > >>>> Just my $0.02 (aka "guess") > >>>> > >>>> --- bhw > >>>> > >>>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 5:37 PM Jack Coats <[email protected] > >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Condolences from the retired cheap seats... If you must rebuild it > >>>> sounds like multiple virtual machines or at least some kind of > >>>> containers. But I have been out of the fray so long, don't take > >>>> anything I say at face value, ... > >>>> > >>>> Take care ol friends. > >>>> > >>>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 4:11 PM Howard White <[email protected] > >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >>>> > > >>>> > Dealing with servers (virtual guests) upon which KDE was > >>>> installed as > >>>> > the GUI. I'm going through an exercise to try to remove KDE and > >>>> replace > >>>> > it, reluctantly, with GNOME. > >>>> > > >>>> > yum erase kde-runtime seems to have done that deed nicely. > >>>> > > >>>> > First attempt yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" got all manner of > >>>> > conflicts between libvirt-libs and the existing (old) > >>>> libvirt-client > >>>> > > >>>> > yum upgrade libvirt_client > >>>> > > >>>> > yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" got passed that > >>>> > > >>>> > Did I mention that I'm working remotely, trying to balance > >>>> between > >>>> > PuTTY, RDP and vshpere (oh yeah, it's ESXi 5.1)? > >>>> > > >>>> > I did get to the boot screen on the guest console to accept the > >>>> license > >>>> > and finish the configuration. I am able to connect to "some > >>>> part of" > >>>> > gnome via RDP but I don't have an "Activity" or "Applications" > >>>> widget in > >>>> > the top left corner. Gnome Classic?? No obvious way to log out > >>>> of that > >>>> > session. > >>>> > > >>>> > Now on reboot, the console goes through the boot sequence, > >>>> displays the > >>>> > CentOS 7 GUI login splash but not the actual login process. Am > >>>> not able > >>>> > to get to (what I know as session manager) select which Gnome > >>>> or ???? > >>>> > > >>>> > I am able to ssh into the system no problems. I am also able to > >>>> connect > >>>> > via RDP but it's not useable. > >>>> > > >>>> > WhaddidIdo this time? > >>>> > > >>>> > Howard > >>>> > > >>>> > -- > >>>> > -- > >>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > >>>> Google Groups "NLUG" group. > >>>> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> > >>>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> <mailto:nlug-talk%[email protected]> > >>>> > For more options, visit this group at > >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > >>>> > > >>>> > --- > >>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > >>>> Google Groups "NLUG" group. > >>>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > >>>> send an email to [email protected] > >>>> <mailto:nlug-talk%[email protected]>. > >>>> > To view this discussion on the web visit > >>>> > >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/35eeb634-dc53-ef20-1adf-e6e2783160ec%40vcch.com. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- ><> ... Jack > >>>> > >>>> If you are not paying for something, you are not a consumer, you are > >>>> the product. - Chamath Palihapitiya > >>>> > >>>> "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. 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