Removing Gnome

[Doogee]

Hello...

When i first installed Linux (Red Hat 7.3) i only installed Gnome, cos it thought the name sounded cool   . Well now im on KDE and havnt used Gnome for about 2 and a bit months and i want to remove it, but not all of it, i use Gaim alot and also gFTP and i know that lots of programs need the GTK libs so i need to keep them. i use the gdm login thingomabob.
Now i know a bit more about Linux do you think i should wipe clean and reinstall now i know excactly what i want?

[voidmain]

Why remove it? Just make KDE your default desktop. You need to leave most of Gnome installed to run the Gnome apps anyhow.

[Doogee]

i need the hard drive space  

[voidmain]

Then start removing Gnome packages, make sure if other packages are dependent on the package you are trying to remove, you remove the dependent packages first (if you can live without them, if not, leave package installed).

You can start by getting a list of install Gnome packages:

# rpm -qa | grep ^gnome | sort | more

and maybe start by trying to remove "gnome-session" and "gnome-desktop". I don't know how much space you are going to be able to free up if you still want to be able to run some Gnome apps. Might want to look into getting another drive, remove all all your *-devel packages, source, compilers, docs (/usr/share/doc/*), etc, and only install binary RPMs. Or just delete your Windows partition, can gain lots of room doing that.

[ November 07, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Calum]

also, once you have got rid of GNOME, i urge you to try some other desktop environments, especially if you need the hard drive space. my recommendations are iceWM, which is similar to kde, but with less eyecandy and no desktop icons, or XFce, which is my favourite as it is incredibly simple to learn but very useful and customisable, or windowmaker, which is similar to XFce but with more features, although i find it clunkier to get my head around.

i also will try this uninstalling of GNOME as it seems too buggy. maybe it's my buggy hardware, i don't know (i mean i know my hardware has many bugs, but i don't know if that's the problem or not).

[voidmain]

I'm running blackbox right now...

[Doogee]

ya ivegot iceWM (thanks to voidmain   ) but i dont use it at the moment cos i dont know how to run gtk apps in it, also i want to try out other window managers but im too newbiefied and need a hand to hold when setting up gdm, man it would rock if the session was auto added to the gdm menu.

[Calum]

i know what you mean. there's a little tool to do it in the mandrake control center but i am not sure how well it works, and would like to know how to do it all myself anyway (and i think i must be using kdm or whatever the mandrake default logon manager is, so anything i find out won't be compatible i think with your setup).

IceWM i found, didn't have a run command anywhere! and that annoyed me. I found you can put one on the start menu using a tool called IceMe, you should always make sure that IceMe and IcePref are installed. You can use IceMe to add a shortcut to the run dialogue. I would have mine pointing to xfrun, but i shouldn't think it makes much difference, and i haven't tried it yet either, since i don't use icewm much.

Up to now, i tend to just open up a bunch of Eterms in desktop 4 in icewm, and use them as run boxes, relocating all the dialogues to other desktops as i open them.

i'll stop rambling now. back to the GNOME eradication society!  

[creedon]

I DON'T like Gnome; I've always had trouble with it; the only reason I even have it on my box is he libraries; I'm with Calum; XFCE is the handiest desktop, and for me, the fastest; that bitch SCREAMS in Debian!!