On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:45:19 +1030 Tim via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 21:09 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
I have looked until exhausted. This cli boot I have I have
group installed Basic Desktop, Xfce Desktop and startx will not boot anything. I believed it was a "good ole" systemd thing, but systemctl afaik seems not to behind this. I know wayland has replaced X but there was X libraries sill in the distro isn't there? How do I boot a gui? I believe xfce runs on X. I see no gnome, or even kde.
I am probably behind and I am no developer, so idk what's up.
what should I do?
Are you deliberately booting into a command line interface then separately starting a graphical user interface for a reason, or habit?
Not the OP, but I do it so I can use dnf to update with the gui turned off. When I want to run dnf, I just logout of X, and run it in a virtual console, and then start it as a user afterwards if I want it again. A hack to accomplish most of what Gnome gets by always rebooting after an update. The restart of X will usually reload any libraries that have been updated. Doesn't work for the kernel, of course, that still requires a reboot.