If you want to install a whole desktop environment - you can.. but it isn't really advisable.. All of those things you want require a lot of graphics which end up being network traffic rather than a write to your video card. (I see you are running under Hercules -- everything I'm saying really applies to running under z and not a local emulator)
You should be able to start up some graphical thing if you like from that command line.. Hopefully, that's only a select few things you might do for maintenance, etc. (try 'xclock' which should bring up a graphical clock window -- not maintenance, but the typical 'see - it works' command) But if you really want - sure -- yum install kde or something.. I think of Linux on z as more like the Ubuntu server edition... by default - you're just going to get a terminal login window, because a 'server' doesn't really need more than that. But - you can install Ubuntu server edition and then start adding on all the graphical stuff you want with apt-get or aptitude or synaptic -- same here. There's probably an install option you can use during the RH install that you might have bypassed? Some Advanced option or something where you can pick the type of install and maybe pick desktop? Not sure... If you're serious about running Linux on z -- I would use the command line rather than graphical interfaces. Reliance on GUI isn't in your best interest (imho). And not just on z -- any server implementation.. you learn more using the command line, and you can readily automate when you know the commands behind the gui/menus/etc. Scott On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Mike Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > Justin: > > OK, I got vnc installed and it's sort of working. I say "sort of" since > it gives me a window, but the window doesn't offer much more than what I > got when I used ssh to access the zlinux system. The window contains a > normal prompt and lets me enter commands, but it just acts like a > terminal window. What I am looking for is a desktop environment like I > get when I login to my Ubuntu linux system, one with an action bar thet > gives me pull-downs from which I can open applications that will also > run in windows. Am I expecting too much when I am looking for one > Linux's "worksation" interface (like zLinux's) to look roughly like > another's (Ubuntu Linux, Knoppix Linux, or any of the other Linux > distros I have used)? > > Is there some way that you can get such a desktop as a zLinux logged-in > user? > > Mike Myers > > > using Justin Payne wrote: > >> On 11/27/2009 10:54 AM, Mike Myers wrote: >> >>> Hi all: >>> >>> I have recently gotten RedHat's zLinux installed and running under >>> Hercules, and a trying to gain some experience with it prior to >>> attempting to install it in an LPAR on a client's system. >>> >>> I'm looking for some information on how to get started. All I have found >>> so far is the ability to login using SSH. I have created a couple of >>> users and was hoping that i could make use of a graphic environment, but >>> haven't been able to get much more than a rudimentary terminal >>> environment. How would I go about accessing zLinuz from a windowed >>> environment and where would I find documentation? >>> >>> Mike Myers >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 >>> or visit >>> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >>> >> If your goal is to have remote access to an entire desktop environment, >> then the following articles is very helpful and still applicable to >> RHEL-5. >> >> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/006apr05/features/vnc/ >> >> Be sure to open the necessary ports in your firewall (if iptables is >> running) that Mauro pointed out. For your Windows clients, you will need >> a vnc client (a google search for "windows vnc client" turns up quite a >> few). >> >> If an entire desktop environment is not your goal, then go with Jay >> Brenneman's suggestions. >> >> -Justin >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 >> or visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
