Running XFCE. yum upgrade'd yesterday, now there's no window manager. Stuck using gnome.
What is the xfce wm? And where is it turned on?
BTW:
switchdesk kde Red Hat Linux switchdesk 4.0 Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Red Hat, Inc Redistributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License ERROR: KDE is not installed on your machine! to install KDE, please type yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Setting up Group Process Warning: Group KDE (K Desktop Environment) does not exist. No packages in any requested group available to install or update
and yum groupinstall kde fails with broken deps!
sean
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:55:42 -0400 sean darcy seandarcy2@gmail.com wrote:
Running XFCE. yum upgrade'd yesterday, now there's no window manager. Stuck using gnome.
What is the xfce wm? And where is it turned on?
It's xfwm4, and it should run by default.
In the event your session had it crash and you then logged out it may have saved the session without it. Login and use a terminal to run 'xfwm4 &' or remove your old session file.
BTW:
switchdesk kde Red Hat Linux switchdesk 4.0 Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Red Hat, Inc Redistributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License ERROR: KDE is not installed on your machine! to install KDE, please type yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Setting up Group Process Warning: Group KDE (K Desktop Environment) does not exist. No packages in any requested group available to install or update
It's not called that anymore.
and yum groupinstall kde fails with broken deps!
I'd suggest 'yum groupinstall kde-desktop'
kevin
On 10/28/2011 11:25 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:55:42 -0400 sean darcyseandarcy2@gmail.com wrote:
Running XFCE. yum upgrade'd yesterday, now there's no window manager. Stuck using gnome.
What is the xfce wm? And where is it turned on?
It's xfwm4, and it should run by default.
In the event your session had it crash and you then logged out it may have saved the session without it. Login and use a terminal to run 'xfwm4&' or remove your old session file.
Once I logged in, I couldn't type in a terminal. CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE, deleted ~/.cache/sessions/xfce* (which took me forever to find!). That worked, thanks.
BTW:
switchdesk kde Red Hat Linux switchdesk 4.0 Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Red Hat, Inc Redistributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License ERROR: KDE is not installed on your machine! to install KDE, please type yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Setting up Group Process Warning: Group KDE (K Desktop Environment) does not exist. No packages in any requested group available to install or update
It's not called that anymore.
and yum groupinstall kde fails with broken deps!
I'd suggest 'yum groupinstall kde-desktop'
kevin
Yes, yum groupinstall kde-desktop works. But I'd never have found it without your help:
yum grouplist | grep KDE KDE Software Compilation KDE Software Development
sean
On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 13:28 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
Yes, yum groupinstall kde-desktop works. But I'd never have found it without your help:
yum grouplist | grep KDE KDE Software Compilation KDE Software Development
It's 'KDE Software Compilation' (kde-desktop is the short name for that group). That's the official upstream name for the whole KDE ball o' wax, I believe, though it's obviously a bit confusing if you read it and think 'compiler'.
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