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lucacerone

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Registered: 2012-05-04

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[SOLVED] Remove completely Gnome and GDM (without messing MATE)

Hi everybody,
I wanted to try the new Gnome on my laptop and I installed it following the wiki with the command:

sudo pacman -S gnome gnome-shell gnome-extra gdm

I really like it (both the "standard" and the classic interfaces), but unfortunately it makes my laptop quite slow,
therefore I would like to remove it leaving only MATE on my desktop.

I noticed that Gnome partially conflicts with my MATE desktop (for example in a Gnome Classic session I would expect Nautilus
to be the default file browser, instead caja is opened), therefore I would like to know if there is some safe way to remove
all the installed packages without messing out with MATE.

Thanks in advance!

Solution here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117144

Last edited by lucacerone (2014-04-02 00:16:29)

lucacerone

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From: Spain

Registered: 2012-05-04

Posts: 144

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Re: [SOLVED] Remove completely Gnome and GDM (without messing MATE)

Ok I think I found out on my own (searching on google send me to an Arch forum thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117144, but I was looking for it in the wrong section).
Sorry for the pointless post.