Installing a desktop for Fedora

First is to install the xorg packages which are the drivers etc.

yum install @base-x

Once this is done, we can choose the desktop which we would want to install.

yum install @kde-desktop

This command is to install the KDE desktop. Once a desktop is installed, we need to select it. To select it automatically, switchdesk is used. To install switchdesk, here is the command.

yum install switchdesk-gui

Once it is installed, type this command to choose kde.

switchdesk kde

Finallly to start th desktop, Just type this command.

startx

If there are issues when running startx, the current user might not be in the appropriate group to run startx. Use this command to add the user to the appropriate groups.

usermod -a -G audio,lp,optical,storage,video,wheel,games,power,scanner 

To try xfce, go to this link


XFCE Desktop Installation