Kill KDE

[Net Llama!]

You didn't say whether you wished to keep KDM, or use XDM.  THis is 
kinda important, as if you remove *all* of KDE, you'll lose KDM too, and 
then you'll be forced to either do without a login manager and start 
xfce manually for each user.

Also, if you go with XDM, then each user will have no choice but to use 
a single window manager by default (rather than the semi-fancy menu of 
options).  Sure, they can still use something else, but its no where 
near as simple as just picking it off the KDM drop down menu.



Collins wrote:
> 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.


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