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#1 2020-05-09 10:08:02
- 860lacov
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How to do clean changing of desktop environment?
I have XFCE.
Installed with xfce4, xfce4-goodies, lightdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter, lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings, and after that some packages like libreoffice, firefox and a few more.
If I would like to change it for kde or another dm or wm is it enough to do pacman -Rsn on installed packages and then manual remove of config files in home folder?
Will it give clean install of new environment or there could be some garbage left?
For xfce I have installed xorg-srver and I would do this for gde or gnome. I assume that it's not necessary to remove it and install it again.
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#2 2020-05-09 10:15:00
- Sauko
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Re: How to do clean changing of desktop environment?
sudo pacman -Rscn
systemctl disable **** (i think is sddm)
edit:
For gnome is: systemctl disable gdm
Last edited by Sauko (2020-05-09 10:17:06)
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#3 2020-05-09 10:29:41
- 860lacov
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Re: How to do clean changing of desktop environment?
sudo pacman -Rscn
systemctl disable **** (i think is sddm)
edit:
For gnome is: systemctl disable gdm
In my case is disable lightdm but thank you for reminding.
Anything else I could do?
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#4 2020-05-09 12:05:28
- Trilby
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Re: How to do clean changing of desktop environment?
If I would like to change it for kde or another dm or wm is it enough to do pacman -Rsn on installed packages and then manual remove of config files in home folder?
Will it give clean install of new environment
Wanting to remove xfce should not related to installing another DE/WM. You can have as many as you want installed.
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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