{"id":960,"date":"2018-04-23T11:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T11:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaipurhosting.com\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2019-04-29T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T09:50:17","slug":"how-to-setup-a-desktop-environment-in-cent-os-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaipurhosting.com\/blog\/how-to-setup-a-desktop-environment-in-cent-os-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Setup A Desktop Environment in Cent OS 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Description <\/strong><\/p>\n

A default CentOS 7 instance comes with a graphical user interface (GUI) installed.<\/p>\n

However, in case you have decided to skip the GUI installation, or are using a minimal distribution, you can always set up your visual environment later.<\/p>\n

As CentOS is a distribution typically aimed for systems administrators, most users prefer working on their system over the terminal.<\/p>\n

You can check with the centos plan details<\/p>\n

#The most common desktop environments for Linux distributions<\/p>\n

GNOME3<\/strong>
\nKDE Plasma 5<\/strong>
\nCinnamon<\/strong>
\nMATE<\/strong>
\nXfce<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Step 1 : <\/strong><\/p>\n

Check with the available group list using below command<\/p>\n

[root@vps ~]# yum group list<\/pre>\n
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Now we are going to look about installing of Gnome desktop<\/p>\n
Step 2 : <\/strong><\/p>\n
Execute the below command to install GNOME 3 desktop environment<\/p>\n
[root@vps ~]# yum -y groupinstall \u201cGNOME Desktop\u201d<\/pre>\n
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This will take some time to install.<\/p>\n
Once this is done, execute the command- startx. This is used to start the GUI.<\/p>\n
[root@vps ~]# startx<\/pre>\n
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Step 3 : <\/strong><\/p>\n
The GNOME desktop environment is now set up.<\/p>\n
For the initial boot, you will have to configure the following<\/p>\n
System Language<\/strong>
\nKeyboard type<\/strong>
\nOnline accounts<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Once you\u2019ve entered your preferred settings for the items listed above, GNOME Desktop will have started in Classic mode.<\/p>\n
You can check the default settings by using the below command<\/p>\n
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[root@vps ~]# systemctl get-default<\/pre>\n
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This will return the default type- multi-user.target<\/strong><\/p>\n
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[root@vps ~]# multi-user.target<\/pre>\n
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Step 4 : <\/strong><\/p>\n
We can change this setting to GNOME shell by using either of the two options detailed below<\/p>\n
Option 1, If you use the startx command to start the service, you can then execute the following<\/p>\n
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[root@vps ~]# echo \u201cexec gnome-session\u201d >> ~\/.xinitr<\/pre>\n
[root@vps ~]# startx<\/pre>\n
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Option 2, use the command systemctl set-default graphical.target and reboot the system<\/p>\n
[root@vps ~]# systemctl set-default graphical.target<\/pre>\n
After reboot, click the button next to Sign In.<\/p>\n
Select GNOME from the list.<\/p>\n
Click Sign in and you will have logged in with a GNOME shell.<\/p>\n
Step 5 : <\/strong><\/p>\n
Here is a list of systemd targets with the specific level defined.<\/p>\n
By default, this is set to level 3 and in order to use a GUI we must change it to level 5.<\/p>\n
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