On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 23:24:39 -0500 "Richard R. Sivernell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guru help needed > > I have a installed Easerver system up. But no gui as something is > wrong with > kde. What I want to do is remove kde from the system totally and use > xfce. I want to use xfce so I can have all of the terminal window & > browser/ ftp downloading capability to manage my server & I want it > also to function as a Web Server. How do I remove the kde stuff > from being called and insert xfce as the manager of choice. > Appreciate all replies >
1. Install xfce with --prefix=/usr (the default is /usr/local). If you want the CVS version, see my prior post on how to do that; otherwise follow the standard xfce install instructions. There are also RPMs (ugh!) available. 2. If you are currenly booting from gui, change your /etc/inittab to boot to run level 3. You can make changes to the gui boot to allow xfce as a choice, but it's too much of a PITA for me. 3. xfce will have installed /usr/bin/startxfce. Issue startxfce to starup xfce and enjoy. I make an alias sx for starting xfce. The run program dialog is your friend. Switch to the desired desktop (you get 4 by default, but you can use up to 10). Click anywhere on an open part of your desktop, select run program, enter a program to run. After you've done this once, the program will be in a dropdown list for you to select again. 4. When you terminate xfce/xfwm, your started programs will come back right where you left them. 4. Now that you have xfce running, start a terminal window, su -, and search and destroy all kde stuff, if you like. Otherwise, just ignore kde, if you have the disk space. Note that xfce provides a menu of kde and gnome applications, and you can continue to run these any time you need them. Enjoy, -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
