Kill KDE

[Collins]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 23:24:39 -0500 "Richard R. Sivernell"
<res005ru at gte.net> wrote:
> Guru help needed
> 
>    I have a installed Easerver system up. But no gui as something is
>    wrong with 
> kde. What I want to do is remove kde from the system totally and use
> xfce. I want to use xfce so I can have all of the terminal window &
> browser/ ftp downloading capability to manage my server & I want it
> also to function as a Web Server.  How do I remove the kde stuff
> from being called and insert xfce as the manager of choice. 
> Appreciate all replies
> 

1. Install xfce with --prefix=/usr (the default is /usr/local).  If
you want the CVS version, see my prior post on how to do that;
otherwise follow the standard xfce install instructions.  There are
also RPMs (ugh!) available.

2. If you are currenly booting from gui, change your /etc/inittab to
boot to run level 3.  You can make changes to the gui boot to allow
xfce as a choice, but it's too much of a PITA for me.

3. xfce will have installed /usr/bin/startxfce.  Issue startxfce to
starup xfce and enjoy.  I make an alias sx for starting xfce.  The run
program dialog is your friend.  Switch to the desired desktop (you get
4 by default, but you can use up to 10). Click anywhere on an open
part of your desktop, select run program, enter a program to run. 
After you've done this once, the program will be in a dropdown list
for you to select again.  4. When you terminate xfce/xfwm, your
started programs will come back right where you left them.

4. Now that you have xfce running, start a terminal window, su -, and
search and destroy all kde stuff, if you like.  Otherwise, just ignore
kde, if you have the disk space.  Note that xfce provides a menu of
kde and gnome applications, and you can continue to run these any time
you need them.

Enjoy,
-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla