not worry about the rsync getting interrupted as it might in an ssh session.

Use the "screen" utility from ssh for such long-running programs. You can disconnect from screen and log out of ssh if you wish. Later log back into ssh if necessary and then connect to screen. Even have multiple "screens" from one ssh session. Less resource intensive than vnc with a gui. Always install this here onto ClearOS here...

Lots of help for this on the 'web' eg https://www.rackaid.com/blog/linux-screen-tutorial-and-how-to/

NetworkManager should not be an issue. ClearOS does not use it and I believe it breaks ClearOS if you do use it.

For rsync, if you launch your command from an ssh session but add a "&" at the end of the command, rsync will fork into the background. You can then shut the ssh terminal and the rsync command will keep running.

You can try:

yum list --show-duplicates --enablerepo=clearos-centos*,clearos-epel* package1 package 2 .....

Have a look to see which repos they are in and make a sensible choice if you find them.

BTW it is better to use clearos-epel rather than vanilla epel.

Enabling the centos repos picks up gnome as a group, but not xfce, nor the missing rpms. On the Centos list it was suggested I add epel. Adding epel only adds the pulseaudio-plugin; nothing else.

So it appears that Centos7 itself is broken WRT Xcfe at some level of brokeness. Now I have to decide if I install Xfce as it is and continue to make noise about it on the Centos list, or punt back to gnome.

ClearOS has been the only platform for some time with a GUI running Gnome here. All else have moved to Xfce. Like its lower memory and power usage.

Have you looked in the clearos-centos and clearos-centos-updates repos? It should be safe to enable them permanently, but it must be done as a pair.

I am attempting to install the Xfce desktop. From a Centos7-x64 system We have:

> yum group info Xfce
Group: Xfce
Group-Id: xfce-desktop
Description: A lightweight desktop environment that works well on low end machines.
Mandatory Packages:
+Thunar
+xfce-utils
+xfce4-panel
+xfce4-session
+xfce4-settings
+xfconf
+xfdesktop
+xfwm4
Default Packages:
+NetworkManager-gnome
gdm
+leafpad
+openssh-askpass
+orage
+polkit-gnome
+thunar-archive-plugin
+thunar-volman
+tumbler
+xfce4-appfinder
+xfce4-icon-theme
+xfce4-mixer
+xfce4-power-manager
+xfce4-session-engines
+xfce4-terminal
+xfwm4-theme-nodoka
Optional Packages:
xfwm4-themes
Conditional Packages:
+pinentry-gtk


CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)


When I clean this up into a file xfce.lst and run:

yum install $(cat xfce.lst | tr '\n' ' ')

I see the following warnings:

No package xfce-utils available.
No package NetworkManager-gnome available.
No package leafpad available.
No package xfce4-icon-theme available.
Package xfce4-mixer is obsoleted by xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, trying to install xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.2.4-4.el7.x86_64 instead
No package xfwm4-theme-nodoka available.

I like leafpad, and some of those others look valuable. Can someone help me out with these?

thanks