Does Red Hat support the XFCE Desktop Environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • XFCE Desktop Environment

Issue

  • Why are XFCE desktop environment rpms are not available for RHEL?
  • How can the XFCE Desktop Manager be installed in RHEL?

Resolution

  • The XFCE package is not provided by Red Hat. It can be installed from EPEL or other third party repositories. But those packages are not supported by Red Hat.

  • In order to utilize EPEL to install XFCE, please refer to following article for further details:

    How to use Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)?

Root Cause

  • The XFCE Desktop Environment is not provided for RHEL. There was an existing request for inclusion of XFCE in RHEL but project management denied it with the reason of "inability to manage another graphic environment package"
> Official Statement. 
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There is no plan to add into RHEL XFCE. We Understand That There Are niche cases Where It is 
of interest, But we do not see a business to support Justification another Desktop 
Metaphor. A locked-down Gnome is the solution to pursue here. Alternatively XFCE Could Be a 
subject for the EPEL community.
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