[CentOS-devel] [OT, partly]epel question

Sat Jun 21 21:38:35 UTC 2014
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 09:30:09PM -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/20/2014 08:37 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > I've installed MATE desktop (and related packages) from epel on my C7 VM,
> > just to see how it works on C7.
> > 
> > The answer I've got is "not too well", but I fear I may have done something
> > wrong.
> > 
> > Before I go any further, is it not toally unreasonable to ask this here? or
> > should I be banished to redhat bugzilla?
> 
> It's not really a 'centos-development' type question, so it's not really
> on topic here. It would be more appropriate on the general mailing list.
> It's something I'm reasonably close to though, so if you'd ask your
> questions there, I'd be happy to try to help.

thanks Jim. You mean the Centos list, or epel list?

> 
> > 
> > I've got it to the point where when I log in I get top and bottom panels,
> > and desktop wallpaper. But nothing is drawn in front of the wallpaper,
> > and right-click context menu on the desktop doesn't do anything. Everything
> > that I can access thru a panel icon, a panel menu, or a terminal seems
> > to be working.
> 
> It was built in epel-devel against the beta I believe, which has a bit
> of turn-over from the rc and the final code we're building against for
> the open qa builds. It may be that it simply needs to cycle through the
> build system again.
> 
> > 
> > I did log on epel IRC and talked with "wolfy" about it, but he didn't have
> > any firm answers (several good suggestions, though).
> > 
> 
> If you can ask on the main mailing list, I'll try to help as best I can.
> Worst case, it will give me something to point out to the MATE
> maintainer for epel that won't vanish like irc logs.
> 
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