Guest stodge Posted June 9, 2003 Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 Here's a crazy thought. Has anyone installed Gnome and KDE support when installing Mdk 9.1 and then tried to remove ALL KDE support (libraries, applications, conf etc)? I really can't face re-installing my box, but I want to use a Gnome only environment to reclaim disk space. Any thoughts? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phazeman Posted June 9, 2003 Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 You can easily uninstall KDe by doing : # urpme kdelibs qt arts That should remove everything KDE based from your machine... Please remember that you will loose all the kde apps including koffice and all the ammusements that came with kde. Please read the list of the apps that is going to be uninstalled before you press the 'Y' Hope it helps Phazeman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stodge Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 I did it and it worked, but now I don't have a login screen. I'm kicked back to runlevel 3. Ah well, I needed to re-install anyway; I was just lazy! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 If it is not too late... or for future referance: You can install xtart, which I believe is included on the CD's, and then at the prompt enter: Xtart this gives you the option of starting any other desktops you have installed like gnome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stodge Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 I can get Gnome up and running using startx no problem. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 If you have gdm installed, you can switch to that login manager. You do not need to reinstall at all. In fact, I'll bet that if you install gdm, mandrake will configure to that login without you having to edit the pertinent file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 Either use the Software Manager in mcc (Mandrake Control Center) to install Xtart and gdm (if not already) or for the faster way from a terminal as root; urpmi gdm Xtart Note: 'X' tart- case sensitive Then go to mcc>Hardware and choose gdm as your dm (display manager). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stodge Posted June 12, 2003 Report Share Posted June 12, 2003 Conversely, which core RPMs would I uninstall to completely remove Gnome from a Mandrake install? Also, what widget toolkit are the Drak applications written using? Thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted June 12, 2003 Report Share Posted June 12, 2003 Conversely, which core RPMs would I uninstall to completely remove Gnome from a Mandrake install? Also, what widget toolkit are the Drak applications written using? Thanks again I was under the impression that the drake tools have been ported to perl-GTK2 for 9.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 12, 2003 Report Share Posted June 12, 2003 It's some sort of the gtk family. gnome-libs should remove most of gnome. If you really want to know 'exactly', do; rpm -qa | grep gnome rpm -qa | grep gnome2 rpm -qa | grep gtk2 or variation of the pkgs you get in the results. Same with kde rpm -qa | grep kde I'm on a win box rt now so I can't check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stodge Posted June 12, 2003 Report Share Posted June 12, 2003 I ran the Mandrake software removal app, and just kept searching for gnome. That seemed to do the trick. Everything seems hunky dory since then. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 12, 2003 Report Share Posted June 12, 2003 cool....scratch the gnome-libs gnome2 ...now it's; libgnome there's also; gtk2 and some gtk pkgs that's not needed but kde requires a few for gtk apps (themes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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