Re: getting gnome out of xfce4 in debian
under xfce-setting-show manager choose preferred applications and there you can
change the choice of browser, email program and terminal.
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:51:11 -0500
"Jimmy Wu" <jimmywu013@gmail.com> wrote:
> I like xfce4 because it is lighter than GNOME and yet has almost as
> many features.
>
> I used the netinstall CD to install a Debian desktop, and it gave me
> GNOME. No problem, I installed the xfce4 meta-package. What is
> strange is how much of GNOME is still present in Xfce4. For example,
> the launcher to start a graphical terminal emulator starts
> gnome-terminal. Even the command xfterm4 starts gnome-terminal for
> some reason I cannot fathom.
>
> What I want to hopefully do is remove as much of GNOME as possible,
> and have an independent xfce4 desktop instead of this bizarre amalgam.
> However, I would like to keep the convenient system configuration
> tools (like power management, etc) that GNOME offers but Xfce4 lacks.
>
> Is there any simple, _clean_ way to do this? The cleanest way I can
> think of is to reinstall using the Debian xfce4 iso and add the gnome
> utilities one by one, but that would be a real hassle, involving
> downloading and burning an iso and going through the whole install
> process all over.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
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