Re: I get no session option in F17

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:59:09 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> 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.

The command I ran was based on this query:

  # yum group list |grep -i xfce
     XFCE Software Development
     Xfce

> 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.

It's not a file name, but a group name. And apparently, the group names
are case-insensitive, as both "xfce" and "Xfce" install the same packages,
and for example, "yum group install 'xfce SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT'" as strange
as it looks can be used to install the group "XFCE Software Development"
of packages needed for developing software with/for XFCE.

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