James B. Byrne wrote:
On Fri, October 5, 2012 10:43, Phil Dobbin wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Nux! wrote:
On 05.10.2012 14:31, Nux! wrote:
On 05.10.2012 14:05, James B. Byrne wrote:
So what is it that I am missing? What other step is required to get my 'normal' gnome desktop with the utilities ans such displayed in the title bar?
Try: yum groupinstall "Desktop" "Desktop Platform" "General Purpose Desktop"
<snip> Yeah... they keep changing the group names, for no good reason AFAIK. For example, between 5 and 6, they changed KDE from "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" to "KDE Desktop". Note that we groupinstall "X Window System" and Desktop, and *then* the KDE; I'd assume gnome was the same.
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yum groupinstall "Desktop" "Desktop Platform" "General Purpose Desktop"
appears to have worked. As I had already installed two of these I
Glad to hear it. I've not a clue why you need three seperate groups....
infer that the missing bit was "Desktop Platform". Is there a purpose served by making the process of installing the gnome-desktop so opaque? Not that it matters much to me for I am likely to be switching to kde once Redhat embraces Gnome3. But it does seem
I had to deal with that on one user's Fedora. AUGHGHGHGHGH!!!! The "k3wl" icons that only appear when you roll over them, and fade from transparent to off....
Must be fun, being a developer who's never worked anywhere "normal".... <snip>
There is one 'gotcha' however. When I installed the three of these packages NetworkManager got turned on. This evidently overrode the NM_CONTROLLED=NO configuration in the ifcfg files.
My manager and I have agreed that if I feel like, I can uninstall NetworkManager. I have done so, with no problems.
But then, I always shut down avahi-daemon, and close the firewall hole for it. I mean, in a wired environment, and it's a *server*?! <snip> mark