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12-06-2016, 05:32 PM
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Registered: Dec 2016
Posts: 242
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Multiple Desktop Environments
Hi
Fresh Centos 7 + MATE install. Was wondering if there was some way to possibly install different desktop environments at the same time, and then switch between them on boot?
I'd like to try perhaps GNOME but would prefer not to un install MATE.
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12-06-2016, 08:37 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: USA and Italy
Distribution: Debian testing/sid; OpenSuSE; Fedora; Mint
Posts: 5,524
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kdm and gdm3 both allow you to choose a desktop.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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12-06-2016, 09:18 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2013
Location: Somewhere in my head.
Distribution: Slackware (15 current), Slack15, Ubuntu studio, MX Linux, FreeBSD 13.1, WIn10
Posts: 10,342
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lxdm allows different desktops / Windows managers changes, you have to wait to boot then before logging in change to whatever you want to use. You can install every desktop and window manager Linux has then have loads of fun, some you will have to make a desktop file for it, but that is easy to do too.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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12-06-2016, 09:33 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,987
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You can also log out, choose a different desktop or window manager, and log back in.
I think every DM includes some way to change the DE/WM, but some are more, as they say, "user-friendly" than others.
Slackware comes with six GUI environments out of the box. With the latest Debian, you can choose from multiple GUI environments at time of install, install one or more, and switch back and forth at time of login. On my Debian install, I selected MATE and KDE, but I use Enlightenment, which I installed from the repos because I like Enlightenment much more than I like anything else except Fluxbox, which is my hands-down favorite.
Last edited by frankbell; 12-06-2016 at 09:36 PM.
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12-08-2016, 05:46 AM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2010
Location: india
Distribution: debian 8,debian 9,slackware 14.2
Posts: 158
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Simple.
Install desktop env required.
eg lxde , xfce , gnome3 ,kde or anything.
Select when you boot.(Entering password /username time).
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12-08-2016, 12:56 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Dec 2011
Distribution: Slackware, Debian 12, Devuan & MX Linux
Posts: 9,528
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Were you able to get Gnome installed on your fresh install of Centos 7?
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12-08-2016, 09:03 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Dec 2011
Distribution: Slackware, Debian 12, Devuan & MX Linux
Posts: 9,528
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Looking here at this thread your now running Ubuntu:-
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nu-4175595090/
What was wrong with CentOS 7 aside from having a different DE's?
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12-09-2016, 05:01 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: debian
Posts: 4,137
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Does centos 7 come with systemd?
$ sudo systemctl --set-default multi-user.target
$ nano ~/.xinitrc
$ startx -- :0
Basically command line starting of X with .xinitrc being the "exec dwm" that launches the environment. Exit X and change that file to switch. It's what I used on Fedora 24 since their desktop switching things didn't work. Where multi-user.target is a config file of sorts in /etc/systemd/system/ (in debian) and graphical.target would be the default gui login. The rough equivalent of changing /etc/inittab BITD.
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12-09-2016, 06:01 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Dec 2011
Distribution: Slackware, Debian 12, Devuan & MX Linux
Posts: 9,528
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Quote:
Does centos 7 come with systemd?
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Yes:-
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