Cinnamon and F19

[Joachim Backes]

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

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Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow): Kernel-3.8.6-201.fc18.x86_64

Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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