Jimmy Wu wrote:
I like xfce4 because it is lighter than GNOME and yet has almost as
many features.
I used the netinstall CD to install a Debian desktop, and it gave me
GNOME. No problem, I installed the xfce4 meta-package. What is
strange is how much of GNOME is still present in Xfce4. For example,
the launcher to start a graphical terminal emulator starts
gnome-terminal. Even the command xfterm4 starts gnome-terminal for
some reason I cannot fathom.
What I want to hopefully do is remove as much of GNOME as possible,
and have an independent xfce4 desktop instead of this bizarre amalgam.
However, I would like to keep the convenient system configuration
tools (like power management, etc) that GNOME offers but Xfce4 lacks.
Is there any simple, _clean_ way to do this? The cleanest way I can
think of is to reinstall using the Debian xfce4 iso and add the gnome
utilities one by one, but that would be a real hassle, involving
downloading and burning an iso and going through the whole install
process all over.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Jimmy,
Try running update-alternatives. You might be able to pick what term is
opened by default. You can take a look in /etc/alternatives to see what
can be changed. I don't remember what the native xfce4 term is, I
always used gnome-terminal. In the past, I installed XFCE4 then I would
install things like quanta or gnome-terminal as needed. Now days, I
just run gnome, so I am a bit rusty on what apps (like click on the file
manager) opens what apps (the real app, like nautilus). BTW, you can
set up nautilus to NOT take over your desktop by running nautilus
--no-desktop IIRC, but I think that XFCE4 does this by default.
Jimmy, I have a pounding headache right now, so I will probably not
respond back anymore today, HTH!
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