Adding minimal X windows

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 11:24 -0400, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote:
> I usually just intall xterm.  It will get the minimum you need.  If
> you want a window manager as well as min X, install it too ( I usually
> us fvwm for cases like that ). 

Installing xterm doesn't work. Apparently, for many of these X-based
tools, nobody thought to include X as a dependency.

        $ sudo yum install xterm
        [sudo] password for mjs: 
        Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
        Resolving Dependencies
        --> Running transaction check
        ---> Package xterm.x86_64 0:297-1.fc20 will be installed
        --> Finished Dependency Resolution
        
        Dependencies Resolved
        
        ================================================================================
         Package         Arch             Version                Repository        Size
        ================================================================================
        Installing:
         xterm           x86_64           297-1.fc20             fedora           461 k
        
        Transaction Summary
        ================================================================================
        Install  1 Package
        
        Total download size: 461 k
        Installed size: 1.2 M
        Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
        Downloading packages:
        xterm-297-1.fc20.x86_64.rpm                                | 461 kB   00:02     
        Running transaction check
        Running transaction test
        Transaction test succeeded
        Running transaction
          Installing : xterm-297-1.fc20.x86_64                                      1/1 
          Verifying  : xterm-297-1.fc20.x86_64                                      1/1 
        
        Installed:
          xterm.x86_64 0:297-1.fc20                                                     
        
        Complete!

Xfce Desktop still pulls a bunch of multimedia and such.

I have it at least partially working by installing xorg-x11-xinit, which
pulled in a few other packages, and adding PackageKit-gtk3-module by
hand.

Thanks, though.

> 
> - Derrik 
> 
> On Jun 1, 2014 10:54 AM, "Matthew Saltzman" <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
>         I built a Fedora 20 system as a server, without a desktop.  It
>         turns
>         out, no X server is installed at all in that case.  I'd like
>         to add a
>         minimal X server without adding a complete desktop
>         environment, so I can
>         log in remotely and run system configuration tools.  The
>         documentation
>         I've found suggests
>         
>                 yum groupinstall "Basic X Window System"
>         
>         or
>         
>                 yum groupinstall "X Window System"
>         
>         but neither of those groups exist.  There is a Basic Desktop
>         group, but
>         it installs a bunch of unnecessary desktop tools.
>         
>         What's the best way to get just a basic X server in Fedora 20?
>         
>         TIA.
>         --
>         Matthew Saltzman
>         Clemson University Math Sciences
>         mjs AT clemson DOT edu
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Matthew Saltzman
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