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Enabling Desktop Environment
A desktop/graphical interface can be enabled on any kind of systems (regardless of puppet role).
Full Desktop Configuration
A full desktop configuration with Gnome, office software and printing is enabled for the Puppet roles role::workstation and role::console or, independent of the role, in Hiera with
base::is_workstation: true
Customized Desktop Configuration
But desktop features can also be individually be switched on or off. For printing check out the respective guide.
The availability of the desktop is controlled with
base::enable_desktop: true
By default this will install and enable Gnome as desktop and gdm as Display Manager. Without below options do not have any effect!
The desktop configuration can be further refined and/or adapted by following keys:
desktop::display_manager: gdm # available options: gdm (default), lightdm
# this will set the default session manager aka desktop
desktop::session_manager: gnome-xorg # availale options: gnome-xorg (default on RHEL8), gnome-wayland (default on RHEL9), gnome-classic, xfce, ...
Individual desktops can be enabled/disabled via:
desktop::enable_gnome: true # true (default)
desktop::enable_xfce: true # false (default)
desktop::enable_icewm: true # false (default)
The installation of office applications can be enforced with
desktop::enable_office_apps: true
Further refinements can be done as documented in the other guides in this section.
Finally here a rough overview of the destopprofile structure:
