On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 12:55 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 23:32 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:18:05 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > > In F16 once I enter my login name I get a session button but in on my > > > F17 machine I do not. I have installed the groups XFCE Software > > > Development and xfce but no session choice button appears. How can this > > > be fixed? > > > > Can't reproduce. With F17 x86_64 running GNOME Shell, I ran the following > > in a terminal after becoming superuser root: > > > > # yum -y group install Xfce > > > > Then I logged out, entered my user name, and the "> Session" box appeared > > and contained XFCE in addition to GNOME and Openbox. Since then I've logged > > in again, ran "yum history undo 28" to uninstall the Xfce group packages. > > > I found your message amusing and informative. > I ran the command: yum groupinstall "xfce" > You ran the command: yum -y group install Xfce > > Now one question would be why did you use the yum argument: group > install when the man page says the argument is groupinstall. > The groups name is xfce but you used Xfce > > Why did you think your command would work? Now for the amusing part. I > executed your form of the command and magically I now have a entry for > xfce in the session window. Ok, I made a mistake. Currently yum supports both groupinstall and group install. It is my impression this is a recent change in the yum syntax. However the group is still called xfce and Linux us supposed to be case sensitive with file names. -- -- ======================================================================= Microsoft broke Volkswagen's world record: Volkswagen only made 22 million bugs! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
