GUI on Centos 7.3 on Dedicated Server?

plumberg

Has anyone been able to setup a GUI (light weight like Xfce) on a remote dedicated Kimsufi server? I currently have the Kimsufi i3 machines with centos 7.3 installed.. So far, I have been unsuccessful..

After installing xfce/ tigervnc-server, I end up getting a "gray" screen in VNC but no desktop. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

I used http://www.tuxfixer.com/install-xfce-4-desktop-environment-on-centos-7/ as a reference.

Any steps/ tutorial to get it working?

TheOnlyDK

I'm not an expert on this, but try this and see if it works, reboot afterward just to be sure.

EDIT: CloudFlare hates code, so let's use pastebin

http://pastebin.com/cXq1yiju

iffi

First, try to find out if your installation was successful. (KVM-over-IP or htop and search for the desktop-enviroment process).
If its running, i would recommend you to install x2go instead of tiger-vnc. X2go is available for MAC/Windows/Linux and uses some kind of compression to enhance the rDesktop feeling.

plumberg

@iffi said:
First, try to find out if your installation was successful. (KVM-over-IP or htop and search for the desktop-enviroment process).
If its running, i would recommend you to install x2go instead of tiger-vnc. X2go is available for MAC/Windows/Linux and uses some kind of compression to enhance the rDesktop feeling.

This does not have KVM... Simple ssh only

plumberg

@TheOnlyDK said:
I'm not an expert on this, but try this and see if it works, reboot afterward just to be sure.

EDIT: CloudFlare hates code, so let's use pastebin

http://pastebin.com/cXq1yiju

Will check. Thanks

noaman

Check your logs...

It should be the fonts...

And also post your xstartup file

And permissions of the xstartup file..

Also try right clicking ....

Some times itd Just the screen saver :-p

And you could also use x2go

racksx

Hi there,

You can use gnome or kde and use

yum -y install kde*
yum -y groupinstall "X Window System"
yum -y groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
yum -y install vnc-server vnc nano
yum -y install firefox
yum -y install vnc.i386 vnc-libs.i386 vnc-ltsp-config.noarchvnc-reflector.i386 vnc-server.i386
yum -y install nano

then you will have to edit the vnc config and replace the startx with startkde, and the vnc should work just fine.

eva2000

@racksx said:
Hi there,

You can use gnome or kde and use

yum -y install kde*
yum -y groupinstall "X Window System"
yum -y groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
yum -y install vnc-server vnc nano
yum -y install firefox
yum -y install vnc.i386 vnc-libs.i386 vnc-ltsp-config.noarchvnc-reflector.i386 vnc-server.i386
yum -y install nano

then you will have to edit the vnc config and replace the startx with startkde, and the vnc should work just fine.

If you read CentOS 7.3 release note's known issues section for that you need minimum 1344MB of memory IIRC

plumberg

@eva2000 said:

@racksx said:
Hi there,

You can use gnome or kde and use

yum -y install kde*
yum -y groupinstall "X Window System"
yum -y groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
yum -y install vnc-server vnc nano
yum -y install firefox
yum -y install vnc.i386 vnc-libs.i386 vnc-ltsp-config.noarchvnc-reflector.i386 vnc-server.i386
yum -y install nano

then you will have to edit the vnc config and replace the startx with startkde, and the vnc should work just fine.

If you read CentOS 7.3 release note's known issues section for that you need minimum 1344MB of memory IIRC

My server has 8g ram

emre

x2go!
vnc sucks hard.
use x2go

plumberg

I could not get xfce working, but a full gnome worked... Not sure what is wrong with the basic xfce installation

racksx

you might not installed the full package of xfce, this is why i told you to do gnome or kde.

deadbeef

@emre said:
x2go!
vnc sucks hard.
use x2go

+1. xfce + x2go works perfectly fine on CentOS 7.

plumberg

@racksx said:
you might not installed the full package of xfce, this is why i told you to do gnome or kde.

I did yum groupinstall "Xfce"...

Is there anyother command needed?

racksx

Hi,

this is what you need: http://jensd.be/125/linux/rhel/install-mate-or-xfce-on-centos-7