Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat 20 August 2011 00:02:15 Walter Dnes did opine thusly: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:34:33AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote Interesting - thanks! It found an unused library file (qdbm) here that nothing else had. One suggestion: I'd create cleanscript in /tmp rather than wherever I

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 August 2011 09:07:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: Add a variable at the top to define the bin directory to use. Then users can change it to whatever suits them. /tmp is a good default, except when it's mounted noexec. Same for ~ Almost every reasonable choice will have times when

[gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Space Cake
hi, after playing a lot with desktop environment first I've decided to move from kde to gnome because kde is too shine and eat too much and contains a lot of feature which I don't really need.. gnome is good but still too fat so finally I've found Xfce which is perfect for my needs... :) my

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread András Csányi
2011/8/19 Space Cake spaceca...@gmail.com: hi, after playing a lot with desktop environment first I've decided to move from kde to gnome because kde is too shine and eat too much and contains a lot of feature which I don't really need.. gnome is good but still too fat so finally I've

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Space Cake
On 2011. aug. 19., péntek, 16.50.09 CEST, András Csányi wrote: 2011/8/19 Space Cake spaceca...@gmail.com: hi, after playing a lot with desktop environment first I've decided to move from kde to gnome because kde is too shine and eat too much and contains a lot of feature which I don't really

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:50, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/19 Space Cake spaceca...@gmail.com: my question is what is the easiest way to get rid of kde/gnome stuff? is this enough to change my useflags to -kde and -gnome? Is there any list what I can safely unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 05:19:29PM +0200, Space Cake wrote I'll try to avoid as many kde/gnome application as I can :) I don't really like them because I want to have my window in front of me right when click on the icon :). I just started to clean-up my useflags, changed to desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 August 2011 00:14:07 Walter Dnes wrote: Here's my autodepclean script. It parses the output of a pretend depclean and generates, but does not execute, a script called cleanscript, which has to be run as root. Note the warning to check cleanscript before running it. Remove

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
Cool! I can see myself using this script routinely. That said, since one *must* check the resulting script anyway, why not start the editor directly after chmod? E.g.: $EDITOR cleanscript Oh, also don't forget to delete cleanscript.000 ;) Rgds, On 2011-08-20, Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:34:33AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote Interesting - thanks! It found an unused library file (qdbm) here that nothing else had. One suggestion: I'd create cleanscript in /tmp rather than wherever I happened to be at the time. Question... how many people have

Re: [gentoo-user] move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

2011-08-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 08:17:57AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote Oh, also don't forget to delete cleanscript.000 ;) The autodepclean script cleans out the the temporary file with... echo # cleanscript.000 ...Note the which zaps cleanscript.000. I leave it around as a debugging aid. This is