On 03/03/2017 02:19 PM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
02.03.2017 23:46, Martin Wilck пишет:
On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 22:07 +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
In reminiscence of recent discussion about desktop selection and "but it is easy to add whatever you like using pattern" ...
I installed TW using "Text server" option (which resulted in whooping 2.5GB; I remember minimal server was around 600MB in not so distant past, but well, that's different topic).
Now I want to add XFCE. I did "zypper in -t pattern --no-recommends xfce". According to "zypper se -t pattern" both XFCE and x11 patterns are installed. But runing "init 5" does nothing. Nor do I even have Xorg available.
I had the same problem recently. I think --no-recommends just doesn't work for this case.
No, it is not the point here. Without --no-recommends it still does not install Xorg server with necessary environment. This by itself is probably correct - we can also run functional desktop on remote X - but I do not see any pattern for installing X server environment itself. And installing xorg-x11-server itself installs just binaries without any default fonts that or other packages would be otherwise selected by yast installer.
I miss pattern "local X server" or similar.
Each DE's pattern should install that pattern to a working state even with --no-recommends, it just probably won't have any extra apps with it, at a guess (without looking or testing) currently Desktops are only recommending a Display manager rather then requiring one, try installing lightdm and pointing to it in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and see where that gets you.
But "zypper in -t pattern --no-recommends xfce" should be quite lightweight.
Martin
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