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

SIGH!
Posted to wrong list AGAIN. My apologies. (darn stupid ... ... ...)

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 05:45:11PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 05:38:35PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> OK, here on the general Centos list, I have one more thing to add to the
> above:
> 
> I was chatting on the epel list about it, didn't get a lot of help (no
> reflection on those there) but smooge said he might have time to look into
> it next week.
> 
> Also, someone else from the centos list sent private email that he had
> had the same problem and thought it might be a caja problem, but had not
> gone any further than that.
> 
> So, I opened a terminal and started caja. Voila! not only did a caja
> window open, but the desktop icons appeared, and the right-click menu.
> however when I closed the terminal it all went away. :(
> 
> so I did ALT-F2 and typed in "caja", hit enter, and there's the full
> desktop again. and this time it stayed.
> 
> from these symptoms I don't think I can tell if it's a caja problem, or an
> issue with whoever starts up caja after login (something in systemd ???)
> 
> > > Jim Perrin
> > > The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
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