Re: Gnome to XFCE

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Apr 2025 at 02:14:47 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM David Wright wrote: > > > I would assume that uninstalling the Display Manager would free up > > > the most resources, but you can probabl

Re: Gnome to XFCE

2025-04-23 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM David Wright > wrote: > > > > On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 14:25:38 (-0400), Eben King wrote: > > > I have a computer called "alexandria". Usually I log in via SSH. I > > > only log in at the console when it's bro

Re: Gnome to XFCE

2025-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 14:25:38 (-0400), Eben King wrote: > > I have a computer called "alexandria". Usually I log in via SSH. I > > only log in at the console when it's broken so that networking doesn't > > work, and even then I almost alwa

Re: Gnome to XFCE

2025-04-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Eben King wrote: > I have a computer called "alexandria". Usually I log in via SSH. I only > log in at the console when it's broken so that networking doesn't work, and > even then I almost always use a text console. So I very rarely need X, but > still want it there to use if I need it. Howev

Gnome to XFCE

2025-04-23 Thread Eben King
I have a computer called "alexandria". Usually I log in via SSH. I only log in at the console when it's broken so that networking doesn't work, and even then I almost always use a text console. So I very rarely need X, but still want it there to use if I need it. However it would be nice if

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-04 Thread Linux-Fan
David writes: On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 08:11, Dan Hitt wrote: > > I still would like a programmatic/command-line way of detecting what the desktop. Try this command, shown here with the output I get on my system which uses the LXDE desktop. Whatever output you get will depend on whatever environm

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 1:28 PM David wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 08:11, Dan Hitt wrote: > > > > I still would like a programmatic/command-line way of detecting what the > desktop. > > Try this command, shown here with the output I get on my system > which uses the LXDE desktop. Whatever outpu

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread David
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 08:11, Dan Hitt wrote: > > I still would like a programmatic/command-line way of detecting what the > desktop. Try this command, shown here with the output I get on my system which uses the LXDE desktop. Whatever output you get will depend on whatever environment variables

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 1:05 PM David wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 07:42, Dan Hitt wrote: > > [...] > > > The desktop manager looks different: i think it is gnome, but i'd like > it to be xfce. > > [...] > > > sudo update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > > switching from (iirc) mut

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread Joe
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 12:41:51 -0800 Dan Hitt wrote: > Hi, > > I recently switched from using debian 9 (stretch) to debian 10 > (buster). I did this on a new partition of my disk so i think it > should be a clean install, and it seems to be. > > The desktop manager looks different: i think it is

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 03 Nov, 2019 at 12:41:51 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: >Hi, >I recently switched from using debian 9 (stretch) to debian 10 >(buster). I did this on a new partition of my disk so i think it >should be a clean install, and it seems to be. >The desktop manager looks different: i

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread David
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 07:42, Dan Hitt wrote: [...] > The desktop manager looks different: i think it is gnome, but i'd like it to > be xfce. [...] > sudo update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > switching from (iirc) mutter to lightdm. Then i rebooted. Hi, Your question mention

changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread Dan Hitt
Hi, I recently switched from using debian 9 (stretch) to debian 10 (buster). I did this on a new partition of my disk so i think it should be a clean install, and it seems to be. The desktop manager looks different: i think it is gnome, but i'd like it to be xfce. What i did was to install the