Cinnamon and F19

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R]

On 04/06/2013 10:48 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 04/07/2013 07:42 AM, David wrote:
>> On 4/7/2013 12:50 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 04/07/13 10:38, David wrote:
>>>> Don't ya' love Linux and the 'works for me' stage?  :-)
>>>>
>>>> Before I made the comment to Joachim I tried this again. The single
>>>> quotes,  What has failed for me in the past failed then. And, after
>>>> receiving this from you I tried it again one more time. It still fails.
>>>> For me.
>>>>
>>>> So?  Now we are at the 'this is a feature' or 'this is a bug' stage.
>>>>
>>>>   :-)
>>> At this point I'd do a couple of things....
>>>
>>> First, I would run xev and see what you get when you type the '    I get...
>>>
>>> KeyPress event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
>>>      root 0x25d, subw 0x0, time 160745506, (125,104), root:(1328,127),
>>>      state 0x10, keycode 48 (keysym 0x27, apostrophe), same_screen YES,
>>>      XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (27) "'"
>>>      XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (27) "'"
>>>      XFilterEvent returns: False
>>>
>>> KeyRelease event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
>>>      root 0x25d, subw 0x0, time 160745690, (125,104), root:(1328,127),
>>>      state 0x10, keycode 48 (keysym 0x27, apostrophe), same_screen YES,
>>>      XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (27) "'"
>>>      XFilterEvent returns: False
>>>
>>>
>>> And then....
>>>
>>> [egreshko at meimei azureus]$ echo "'" | od -bc
>>> 0000000 047 012
>>>            '  \n
>>> 0000002
>>>
>>> I didn't read where you say exactly what the "failure" is....
>>>
>>
>> Hmm...
>>
>> Using ""  "" marks (double quote) works for me.
>>
>> Using ' '  marks (single quote marks) does not work for me.
>>
>> Please  tell me how I can say that more clearly?
>>
>> At no time did I say that this was the only way. I said that this is
>> what works for me. I tried to offer a simple solution to a problem.
>>
>> Too often do I see 'experts' try to impress Newbies and completely
>> derive them away.
>>
>>
>> HOD Ed. Trying to help on lists and forums is becoming more than 'I
>> don't give a $hit anymore.
>>
>>
>> You did see my comment about the list monitor and the delay?
>>
> Hi David,
>
> a third way you could try would be:
>
> 	sudo yum groupinstall Cinnamon\ Desktop
>
> Important: The blank char after the backslash!
>
> BTW: I'm connected to the internet on my F19 box :-)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Joachim Backes
>
>
>
Yum has its own globbing, so "yum groupinstall Cin*" gets the Cinnamon
group assuming Bash doesn't find a Cin* in the current directory.

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