

I am talking about running Slack, Transmission torrent clients, Skype or other such regular programs. I am not talking about essential programs like network manager here.


These are called ‘startup applications’ or ‘start up programs’. Enter your Secret Sauce Password, and hit ENTER, your GUI of choice *should* now come up.Every time you boot in to an operating system, a number of programs start running automatically. Having done that Select your USER (in the event you have more than one).

When you click on it Lo-and-Behold there should be a listing of ALL your installed Desktop Environments. One looks like a page (?) with some text (?) on it though the thing is so small it really is hard to tell exactly what it is. A quick exploration of each symbol showes what each does. You will have a white bar alone the top that looks very "GNOME-like" with some very small symbols. Click on the tiny gear It should give you two or three GUIs You will now for sure have both desktop environments installed.Īssuming you have GDM installed (The GNOME Display Manager) you may have one of two looks come up: Just BEFORE you log in there should be a tiny gear next to the square that says "Sign In". Let's start with the basics: What GUI did you choose to install - KDE, or GNOME? Run yum grouplist, and then, just for fun, run both yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" and then run yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop". I've tried, as root, to run "yum groupinstall "X Window system" as well as "startx" from the console. I'm running a home-built desktop with 9 other Linux distros installed. After a recent a recent installation of CentOS 7-1804 I find that I'm not able to boot to GUI.
