On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Richard Owlett wrote:
I just did an install from
[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 "Wheezy" - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20130615-21:54]
My choices from the the opening set of menus were:
Advanced Options
Alternative desktop environments
Xfce
Advanced options
Expert install [ I may not be "Expert" but am "Control Freak" ;]
Thereafter I usually took default choices except to manual partition.
At "Software selection" I chose
Debian desktop environment
Laptop
Standard system utilities
That got me a login with only Xfce available.
fwiw, this afternoon i pretty much replicated richard's experience,
with a slightly different path through the installer.
cpu type: AMD Athlon XP 2800+
i used debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso on a cd-rom. in case it matters,
i was using a wired internet connection, not wireless.
from the installer boot menu, i picked:
advanced options > alternative desktop environment > xfce > install
from there on out, i picked utter defaults, except that when i came to
software selection i unselected the print server, leaving me with just
the following items checked:
[*] debian desktop environment
[*] standard system utilities
on reboot, i was greeted with lightdm. the drop down session selector
offered...
default xsession
xfce session
...and nothing else. both items started xfce sessions.
also...
$ dpkg -l *gnome*|grep '^ii' |wc -l
...yielded 26, confirming that it did not install gnome. not by a
long shot.
so it looks to me like a new user interested in a minimal desktop can
quite easily install xfce, and just xfce, without installing gnome as
well.
-wes
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