oops - sorry Celejar - my reply-to went to your email and not to the list. I'm reposting my message to the list (below)
On Jan 24, 2008 8:07 PM, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 24, 2008 6:07 PM, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > under xfce-setting-show manager choose preferred applications and there you > > can > > change the choice of browser, email program and terminal. > > The command in the panel launcher is some sort of cryptic 'exo-open > --WebBrowser' or 'exo-open --TerminalEmulator' or something like > that'. Apparently that points to the GNOME apps, since I haven't > changed the Preferred Apps settings. However, I don't think that > should make the command 'xfterm4' open gnome-terminal (?!). Thanks > for the suggestion though. > > On Jan 24, 2008 6:26 PM, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:51:11 -0500 > > "Jimmy Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > You certainly don't need to do that. As Doug would say, start Aptitude > > in interactive mode, open "Installed Packages / Gnome / [Main]" and go > > through the list one by one, marking everything that you don't think > > you need as automatically installed (with key 'M'). Then just upgrade, > > and Aptitude will remove everything that you've marked, except for > > dependencies of things you still want. > > That sounds like the closest to what I want - I'll try that first. > > Thank you to everyone who responded for your help! > > > -- > Jimmy > Registered Linux User #454138 > -- Jimmy Wu Registered Linux User #454138 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
