On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 01:20:42PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I just started using Debian not too long ago. When I did the install I think
> it installed gnome by default, I don't remember.
I think you're right there.
> I run KDE only, yet I have had problems with gnome screensaver taking over,
> and other issues. Right now, for instance I did a ps looking for gnome apps,
> and got this:
> 5$ ps -ef|grep gnome
> pbc 3914 13068 0 13:19 pts/1 00:00:00 grep gnome
> pbc 13053 13028 0 Jan19 ? 00:00:01 gnome-terminal
> pbc 13067 13053 0 Jan19 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helper
> pbc 13080 1 0 Jan19 ?
> 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/gnome-vfs-daemon
> pbc 13085 1 0 Jan19 ?
> 00:00:03 /usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon
> pbc 13096 1 0 Jan19 ? 00:00:22 gnome-screensaver
> pbc 14002 13028 0 Jan19 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal
> pbc 14005 14002 0 Jan19 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helper
>
>
> so what can I safely remove from my system and not affect my KDE setup?
> gdm ? gnome-desktop??
Assuming that you currently use gdm to login with, removing gdm isn't as
simple as just "apt-get --purge remove gdm" - you'll end up without a
login manager (!).
So if you're of the KDE persuasion, then you probably want to install
kdm first: apt-get install kdm and tweak
/etc/X11/default-display-mananger accordingly.
I don't know of a way to remove *all* of GNOME, but removing some of the
central GNOME libraries would go a long way:
apt-get remove libgnome2-0
should result in a lot of other packages being removed, as most GNOME
packages will depend (directly or indirectly) on these.
PS: Double-check (and TRIPLE CHECK) the list of packages that apt
suggests removing - you might actually be using some of them! At least
this will give you a list of candidate packages to remove.
Hope this helps
--
Karl E. Jorgensen
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