Re: KDE, GNOME, too intrusive for me !! Any alternatives ?
I'd like to thank all of you for the good advice and try to summarize
the thread's reccomendations and post a final question.
Starting problem. KDE (more) and GNOME (somewhat less) when installed in
a pseudo standard way, intrude in my system's functions in a few ways.
For example:
a) kacpid wants to handle things that the kernel ACPI already monitors
and produces problems. For instance I had an "lid close" event which I
handled with an hibernate script. KDE smugly issued a second hibernate
without my knowledge and consent
b) The KDE sound system being active at all times interfered with my use
of other programs such as XMMS
c) I think there are functions overlapping with the hotplug daemon.
etc. etc.
I know that with knowledge of KDE I could disable all of these (and did
so each time I discovered the problem) but I want a window manager which
does only that. Manage windows.
That said there are APPLICATIONS under the GNOME or KDE which I find
very good (some examples K3b, Konqueror, GRip, GNOME) and would like to use.
If I interpret the thread reccomendation I could just install a
windowmanager that supports EWMH (Extended Window Manager Hints) such as
FVWM and then install the KDE or GNOME appls I like along with their
dependencies.
The thread also seems to conclude that the behaviours I do not desire
(let's call them "system management") should not be activated by the
simple installation of the KDE/GNOME applications and their prerequisite
libraries.
That said the question:
I have a customized machine working near to perfection :) under Debian
sid with ACPI sleep, hibernate, sound, wifi, GPRS, accel. X and much
more (around 850 packages) running with a KDE desktop.
What is the cleanest way of removing all of that and restaring a clean
X/FVWM environment ????
Thank you very much.
Bob
Reply to: