Arch Linux

Nacha

Member

Registered: 2003-07-23

Posts: 21

Removing window manager

Hi, everyboy

In order to remove a window manager, in my case, xfce4, I just to have to do is,

Pacman --remove xfce4

is it right?

Thanks

jlvsimoes

Member

From: portugal

Registered: 2002-12-23

Posts: 392

Website

Re: Removing window manager

hum if its = to kde i do pacman -R kde kdelibs kdeetc kdeetc etc etc etc and so on
im not shure if there will be the same .
" not telling you to remove the etc "

---

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GU/ d- s: a- C L U P+ L+++ E--- W+
N 0+ K- W-- !O !M V-- PS+ PE- V++ PGP T 5 Z+ R* TV+ B+
DI-- D- G-- e-- h! r++ z+ z*
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

orelien

Forum Fellow

From: France

Registered: 2002-12-05

Posts: 220

Website

Re: Removing window manager

Try removing a package from the xfce4 ones with a high level of dependencies, like libxfce4util:

pacman -Rc libxfce4util

If i'm right, the only thing to remove then should be gtk-xfce-engine.

Nacha

Member

Registered: 2003-07-23

Posts: 21

Re: Removing window manager

@orelien

Thanks very much.

neri

Forum Fellow

From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

Posts: 553

Re: Removing window manager

Hi, everyboy

In order to remove a window manager, in my case, xfce4 ...
Thanks

First of all, I think orelien's solution is the easiest.
Just an addition; in case you wanna remove such more complex things like
xfce4, gnome or kde it can be kind of tricky. If you know the package with
the highest dependency than pacman -Rc does a pretty good job. Another
way might be to test a pacman -Rc | grep xfce. This works a bit for xfce but
also can be kind of risky because it might take some more packages than
you want. It's probably best to download the abs-tree cd /usr/abs... and
then kde or gnome or unstable/xfce4 and try a pacman -R `/bin/ls`.
To sum it up, there is no perfect easy way to remove them. Some packages
probably always need to be removed manually.

bye neri