{"id":584,"date":"2012-09-06T12:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2012-09-06T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:23:36","slug":"install-xwindows-graphical-mode-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Install XWindows (Graphical mode) in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you recently installed linux (CentOS\/Fedora\/RedHat) with text mode and now want to use its Graphical GUI which was left unchecked during the installation, you can install it from Internet very easily.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you are not already root, switch users to the <code>root<\/code> account:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash\">su -<\/pre>\n<p>install the X Window System and a graphical desktop environment. For example, to install the GNOME desktop environment, use this command<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash\">yum groupinstall \"X Window System\" \"Desktop\"<\/pre>\n<p>That will install necessary files for XWindows and default Desktop (GNome), for install KDE as desktop environment type:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash\">yum groupinstall \"X Window System\" \"KDE Desktop\"<\/pre>\n<p>OR if you want to install Sound\/Video Applets to be install, type this:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash\">yum groupinstall \"X Window System\" '\"Desktop\" \"Sound and Video\"<\/pre>\n<p>This step may take some time as your Fedora\/CentOS system downloads and installs additional software. You may be asked to provide the installation media depending on your original installation source.<\/p>\n<p>But if you think GUI is already installed, check by typing:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash\">startx<\/pre>\n<p>Now if your system is showing text mode when boot even you have XWindows Installed, you can change login preference from :<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash\">vi \/etc\/inittab<\/pre>\n<p>By default it will show 3 for text mode like this<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash\">id:3:initdefault:<\/pre>\n<p>Change it to 5:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash\">\r\n# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:\r\n#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)\r\n#   1 - Single user mode\r\n#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)\r\n#   3 - Full multiuser mode\r\n#   4 - unused\r\n#   5 - X11\r\n#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)\r\n#\r\nid:5:initdefault:\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you recently installed linux (CentOS\/Fedora\/RedHat) with text mode and now want to use its Graphical GUI which was left unchecked during the installation, you can install it from Internet very easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95,127],"tags":[223,259,253,256,257,19,258,254,255],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-administration","category-tips","tag-centos","tag-desktop","tag-fedora","tag-gnome","tag-kde","tag-linux","tag-x-windows","tag-xwindows","tag-yum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p12j6H-9q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}