How do you start the desktops that come with Fedora 10

Dave Feustel dfeustel at mindspring.com
Fri Dec 19 15:04:50 UTC 2008


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:36:58PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Morris.Marshael wrote:
> > How do you start the desktops that come with Fedora 10 and what desktop
> > can be added?
> 
> The available desktops are, in alphabetical order:
> GNOME, KDE 4, LXDE and XFCE

yum groupinstall LXDE fails (not found).

> Plus some lightweight window managers without a full desktop environment
> attached.
> 
> You can add them through the Add/Remove Software tool, which is
> PackageKit-gnome or KPackageKit depending on what desktop you're using, or
> you can use command-line yum:
> su -c "yum groupinstall gnome-desktop kde-desktop lxde-desktop xfce-desktop"
> will install them all.
> 
> You select them during the graphical login. If you use GDM (which is
> probably what you're using unless you installed from the KDE spin), you'll
> have to enter your user name before it will let you pick your desktop.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 
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