Johnny,

I have this new keyboard with a poorly positioned Del key, and I deleted your message in such a way that it seems to be gone.  So I went to the archive and pulled it up there.

yum group install Xfce "X Window System"

Helped.  It added 6 packages plus 21 dependencies:

Installing for group install "X Window System":
 plymouth-system-theme    armv7hl 0.8.9-0.31.20140113.el7.centos base     31 k
 spice-vdagent            armv7hl 0.14.0-15.el7 base     66 k
 xorg-x11-drivers         armv7hl 7.7-6.el7 base    8.3 k
 xorg-x11-server-Xorg     armv7hl 1.19.5-5.el7 base    1.2 M
 xorg-x11-utils           armv7hl 7.5-22.el7 base    107 k
 xvattr                   armv7hl 1.3-27.el7 base     22 k

But I am now at the situation where the login fails and I end up right back at the login page.  I looked at the message log and see the following:

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Oct 18 10:45:34 ct-c7 journal: Some code accessed the property 'AuthList' on
the module 'authList'. That property was defined with 'let' or 'const' inside
the module. This was previously supported, but is not correct according to the
ES6 standard. Any symbols to be exported from a module must be defined with
'var'. The property access will work as previously for the time being, but
please fix your code anyway.

gnome-shell --- a nasty piece of work, and one the Gnome Mafia 
want to cram down our throats

Fedora next ship was blocked by this for a while .... 
definitely file a bug and carp publicly


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So to publicly carp...

I even tried installing gnome-shell:

# yum install gnome-shell
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.siena.edu
 * centos-kernel: mirror.siena.edu
 * extras: mirror.siena.edu
 * updates: mirror.siena.edu
Package gnome-shell-3.26.2-5.el7.armv7hl already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

So what does it want?  This is a bug...

 
And along with the above message is:

Oct 18 10:45:36 ct-c7 org.gnome.Shell.desktop: Window manager warning: "XF86RFKill" is not a valid accelerator

This is also a bug to file with a need for that the accelerator not be called when the modules is absent, as on arm?

So I think I am getting closer to running Xfce, but stumbling along the way.

All help on the above greatly appreciated.