CENTOS xfce installation

http://joe-aluminium.blogspot.com/2015/06/centos-7-with-xfce-desktop.html


Xfce

yum -y group install "Xfce"

Before Xfce will work as a desktop you need to install X. 

yum -y group install "X Window System" 

This will give a working Xfce desktop that can be started from the command line using

startxfce4
The XFCE GUI comes with minimal software so I added the basic stuff

yum -y install firefox thunderbird xfce4-terminal nm-connection-editor network-manager-applet net-tools xfce4-mixer firewall-config gparted

Note xfce4-mixer wasn't in the EPEL repo at the time it was in testing so I used that version: 

yum -y install https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/xfce4-mixer/4.10.0/7.el7/x86_64/xfce4-mixer-4.10.0-7.el7.x86_64.rpm

Other programs

yum -y install google-droid* unzip unrar bzip2 cairo-dock shutter vlc clementine firefox thunderbird xscreensaver-base xscreensaver-extras xscreensaver-gl-extras gimp libreoffice gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly libcurl icedtea-web remmina remmina-plugins-rdp


I wanted to mount Windows shares so:

yum install cifs-utils samba-client samba-common
 
Adobe Flash

yum install flash-plugin