<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I was able to install xfce on a machiattobin via:</div><div><br></div><div>yum install epel-release<br>yum groupinstall xfce</div><div><br></div><div>just my two cents<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:04 PM Johnny Hughes <<a href="mailto:johnny@centos.org">johnny@centos.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 10/18/2018 03:07 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On 10/18/18 3:55 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:<br>
>> On 10/18/2018 02:43 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 10/18/18 3:32 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:<br>
>>>> On 10/18/2018 12:36 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:<br>
>>>>> Some progress<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> On 10/17/18 8:30 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:<br>
>>>>>> Johnny,<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> I have this new keyboard with a poorly positioned Del key, and I<br>
>>>>>> deleted your message in such a way that it seems to be gone. So I<br>
>>>>>> went to the archive and pulled it up there.<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> yum group install Xfce "X Window System"<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> Helped. It added 6 packages plus 21 dependencies:<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> Installing for group install "X Window System":<br>
>>>>>> plymouth-system-theme armv7hl 0.8.9-0.31.20140113.el7.centos<br>
>>>>>> base 31 k<br>
>>>>>> spice-vdagent armv7hl 0.14.0-15.el7 base 66 k<br>
>>>>>> xorg-x11-drivers armv7hl 7.7-6.el7 base 8.3 k<br>
>>>>>> xorg-x11-server-Xorg armv7hl 1.19.5-5.el7 base 1.2 M<br>
>>>>>> xorg-x11-utils armv7hl 7.5-22.el7 base 107 k<br>
>>>>>> xvattr armv7hl 1.3-27.el7 base 22 k<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> But I am now at the situation where the login fails and I end up<br>
>>>>>> right<br>
>>>>>> back at the login page. I looked at the message log and see the<br>
>>>>>> following:<br>
>>>>> .....<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> I have had some help in private exchanges and have done the following:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> yum install avahi gnome-backgrounds<br>
>>>>> systemctl enable avahi-daemon<br>
>>>>> systemctl start avahi-daemon<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> this took care of a number of errors, but why gnome-backgrounds for<br>
>>>>> Xfce<br>
>>>>> to deal with the message:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Oct 17 20:17:39 ct-c7 journal: Failed to load background<br>
>>>>> 'file:///usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/adwaita-lock.jpg': Error opening<br>
>>>>> file /usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/adwaita-lock.jpg: No such file or<br>
>>>>> directory<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> But still a couple of unresolved errors that are stopping the login:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> =============private exchange=====================<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>>> Oct 18 10:45:34 ct-c7 journal: Some code accessed the property<br>
>>>>>> 'AuthList' on<br>
>>>>>> the module 'authList'. That property was defined with 'let' or<br>
>>>>>> 'const' inside<br>
>>>>>> the module. This was previously supported, but is not correct<br>
>>>>>> according to the<br>
>>>>>> ES6 standard. Any symbols to be exported from a module must be<br>
>>>>>> defined with<br>
>>>>>> 'var'. The property access will work as previously for the time<br>
>>>>>> being, but<br>
>>>>>> please fix your code anyway.<br>
>>>>> gnome-shell --- a nasty piece of work, and one the Gnome Mafia<br>
>>>>> want to cram down our throats<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Fedora next ship was blocked by this for a while ....<br>
>>>>> definitely file a bug and carp publicly<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> =============end private exchange=====================<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> So to publicly carp...<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> I even tried installing gnome-shell:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> # yum install gnome-shell<br>
>>>>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror<br>
>>>>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile<br>
>>>>> * base: <a href="http://mirror.siena.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mirror.siena.edu</a><br>
>>>>> * centos-kernel: <a href="http://mirror.siena.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mirror.siena.edu</a><br>
>>>>> * extras: <a href="http://mirror.siena.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mirror.siena.edu</a><br>
>>>>> * updates: <a href="http://mirror.siena.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mirror.siena.edu</a><br>
>>>>> Package gnome-shell-3.26.2-5.el7.armv7hl already installed and latest<br>
>>>>> version<br>
>>>>> Nothing to do<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> So what does it want? This is a bug...<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> And along with the above message is:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Oct 18 10:45:36 ct-c7 org.gnome.Shell.desktop: Window manager<br>
>>>>> warning: "XF86RFKill" is not a valid accelerator<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> This is also a bug to file with a need for that the accelerator not<br>
>>>>> be called when the modules is absent, as on arm?<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> So I think I am getting closer to running Xfce, but stumbling along<br>
>>>>> the way.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> All help on the above greatly appreciated.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>> The good (and bad :D) news is .. I have tried to install xfce on my<br>
>>>> cubbietruck plus .. and I have hit the same issue.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I am going to try to get it working now.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> If I get it working, I'll post the solution.<br>
>>> thanks for digging into this. I was looking for a x86 box to do a<br>
>>> 'standard' minimal install and then install Xfce and see what was being<br>
>>> dropped on the box. Thing is, where do I have an x86 box here other<br>
>>> than my notebook?<br>
>> I am quite sure the issue is some pieces GNOME need to be installed to<br>
>> make everything work.<br>
>><br>
>> I am going to try 2 things:<br>
>><br>
>> 1) a gnome desktop install .. but afterwards only use xfce<br>
> <br>
> I can confirm that this works. It is how I got my first working Xfce,<br>
> see my post back on 10-14 9:34am EDT.<br>
<br>
This does work .. so we really just need to figure out the minimum<br>
number of packages to make this work.<br>
<br>
BTW . firefox is absolutely not usable with a 2GB cubietruck_plus in xfce.<br>
<br>
If someone wanted to seriously use this setup, it would not be on this<br>
machine.<br>
<br>
> <br>
>> 2) try with mate and lightdm and not gdm for the main screen .. then use<br>
>> xfce or mate<br>
> <br>
> It would be nice to use lightdm rather than gdm on arm. Fedora is, but<br>
> then I found some bugs on lightdm that have since been fixed (otherwise<br>
> F29 would not be in beta, as it was a blocker or something like that).<br>
> <br>
> I looked at mate, but had already adjusted to xfce thanks to it<br>
> appearing in the first Fedora-arm images.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
<br>
I'll see if I can figure out what is missing to make xfce work with a<br>
minimal install.<br>
<br>
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