Re: removing gnome

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On 01/20/08 17:02, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Sun January 20 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
its not that I need the space, I just don't like issues such as the
screensaver, where they were competing against each other..
I had the KDE screensaver configured, yet gnome-screensaver was also
active.
Purge gnome-screensaver?

nope, never used purge before.
# Purge gnome-screensaver
bash: Purge: command not found
paulandcilla:/home/pbc# purge gnome-screensaver
bash: purge: command not found
paulandcilla:/home/pbc#

ok, I tried it as you wrote it, and no caps..
oh, wait, you want an aptitude in front.. yeah that works:)

No, actually, I don't. Long live apt-get!!!

whats the difference between aptitude remove and aptitude purge? the man page
seems to... miss explaining it.

"Purge" connotes /more/ than remove. Deletes /etc config files, I
think.

You must have thought of that, so I might have missed your comment.

I'm not sure where else there might be a conflict, I just thought it
would be better without both GDM and KDM around. It will probably hurt
more to try to remove packages, than it will be to troubleshoot issues,
so maybe I better leave well enough alone:)
There is no law of nature insisting that you run a display manager.
In fact, people (including non-geeks) function quite well without it.

I have run many window managers, I would run gnome, but I like the KDE apps
better, and my WIFE is comfortable with it,

So.... you use GNOME & she uses KDE. What's the problem?

Maybe [xgk]dm doesn't allow that,

and she HATES when I change
things!

That which ossifies perishes.

If you log in to the ooooh-scary-black console, put this at the
bottom of her .bashrc file:

if [ "$TERM" == "linux" ]; then
startx /usr/bin/startkde
exit
fi

back in my windowz daze, I ran litestep.. of course, since I grew up with DOS
3.11, dosshell and UNIX command line, a window manager is pure fluff:)

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian
because I hate vegetables!"
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