On Sun January 20 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > its not that I need the space, I just don't like issues such as the > > screensaver, where they were competing against each other.. > > I had the KDE screensaver configured, yet gnome-screensaver was also > > active. > > Purge gnome-screensaver?
nope, never used purge before. # Purge gnome-screensaver bash: Purge: command not found paulandcilla:/home/pbc# purge gnome-screensaver bash: purge: command not found paulandcilla:/home/pbc# ok, I tried it as you wrote it, and no caps.. oh, wait, you want an aptitude in front.. yeah that works:) whats the difference between aptitude remove and aptitude purge? the man page seems to... miss explaining it. > > You must have thought of that, so I might have missed your comment. > > > I'm not sure where else there might be a conflict, I just thought it > > would be better without both GDM and KDM around. It will probably hurt > > more to try to remove packages, than it will be to troubleshoot issues, > > so maybe I better leave well enough alone:) > > There is no law of nature insisting that you run a display manager. > In fact, people (including non-geeks) function quite well without it. I have run many window managers, I would run gnome, but I like the KDE apps better, and my WIFE is comfortable with it, and she HATES when I change things! back in my windowz daze, I ran litestep.. of course, since I grew up with DOS 3.11, dosshell and UNIX command line, a window manager is pure fluff:) -- Paul Cartwright
