Re: getting gnome out of xfce4 in debian
oops - sorry Celejar - my reply-to went to your email and not to the
list. I'm reposting my message to the list (below)
On Jan 24, 2008 8:07 PM, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 6:07 PM, Micha <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> > under xfce-setting-show manager choose preferred applications and there you can
> > change the choice of browser, email program and terminal.
>
> The command in the panel launcher is some sort of cryptic 'exo-open
> --WebBrowser' or 'exo-open --TerminalEmulator' or something like
> that'. Apparently that points to the GNOME apps, since I haven't
> changed the Preferred Apps settings. However, I don't think that
> should make the command 'xfterm4' open gnome-terminal (?!). Thanks
> for the suggestion though.
>
> On Jan 24, 2008 6:26 PM, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:51:11 -0500
> > "Jimmy Wu" <jimmywu013@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > You certainly don't need to do that. As Doug would say, start Aptitude
> > in interactive mode, open "Installed Packages / Gnome / [Main]" and go
> > through the list one by one, marking everything that you don't think
> > you need as automatically installed (with key 'M'). Then just upgrade,
> > and Aptitude will remove everything that you've marked, except for
> > dependencies of things you still want.
>
> That sounds like the closest to what I want - I'll try that first.
>
> Thank you to everyone who responded for your help!
>
>
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> Jimmy
> Registered Linux User #454138
>
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Jimmy Wu
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