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Install Xfce

Install Xfce - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux CentOS 7: Desktops and Remote Access (2016)

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Install Xfce

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- [Instructor] Xfce started out as a recreation of the Unix Common Desktop Environment, created in the mid-1990s. It has since grown into a lightweight and powerful desktop, built on the GTK Toolkit. Let's start by preparing a CentOS 7 VM clone just for Xfce, by clicking on our installed CentOS 7 VM, and clicking Clone. I'm using the CentOS 7 full DVD VM I created in our course, Linux Installation and Overview. Right-click the virtual machine, and click on Clone. We'll rename this CentOS 7 Xfce. Click on Reinitialize the MAC address of all network cards, and click Next. Click Linked clone to save disk space, and click on Clone. Once the clone shows up, click on it and boot it up. We'll want to dismiss any virtual box messages, go into full screen mode, click on our user name, enter our password, and log in. Let's go to Applications > Favorites, and open a Terminal. I'll make the Terminal Full Screen, and I'll zoom in my font. We'll start out by adding the EPEL software repository…

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