Safe way to remove GNOME

sourwire · Post by **sourwire** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:04 pm

Hello, I recently installed Xfce and want to remove GNOME. The reason I'm doing it is because I don't want GNOME apps to interfere with Xfce ones (Nautilus and Thunar for example). I was wondering if there is a safe way that I can do that without messing up my whole system. Should I just do it with Synaptic and see what happens?
Thanks in advance.

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:22 pm

So you installed the xfce desktop environment in a normal Cassandra?
You should be able to have several desktops, but as you suspect there might (just might) be a conflict between different apps.
Gnome is a bunch of applications in Synaptics

sourwire · Post by **sourwire** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:35 am

Yeah, I used Synaptic to install all the Xfce packages I needed. Then in gdm, I chose xfce as the default session (but then again, gdm is a part of gnome). So got rid of some apps like nautilus and other ones I was sure I didn't need. So far, everything is working fine. I plan to remove more more gnome packages as I go along.

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:45 am

Just keep a record of what you remove so you can reinstall it if needed - dependencies you know