I have installed slackware-current on a VM. I really don't like KDE, so I removed it using slackpkg, and added kde/ and kdei/ to /etc/slackpkg/blacklist. I have my runlevel set to 4 in /etc/inittab.

When I reboot, it brings up xdm, as expected. However, it still boots into KDE. How do I stop this? I want to use XFCE. Thanks.

Hello,

As regular user, run xwmconfig and select xinitrc.xfce.

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-current doesn't have a kdei series. Maybe take a look inside /var/lib/pkgtools/packages to make sure the KDE packages are actually gone.

Thanks! I've run xwmconfig (as a regulat user) and it's set to xinitrc.xfce. But it still boots into KDE.

/var/lib/pkgtools/packages shows this:

root@localhost:/var/lib/pkgtools/packages# ls -l kde*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4885 Oct 2 10:45 kdebugsettings-21.08.1-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16758 Oct 2 10:45 kdeclarative-5.86.0-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6227 Oct 2 10:45 kdecoration-5.22.5-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1958 Oct 2 10:45 kded-5.86.0-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19684 Oct 2 10:45 kdeedu-data-21.08.1-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1433 Oct 2 10:45 kdegraphics-mobipocket-21.08.1-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1249 Oct 2 10:45 kdegraphics-thumbnailers-21.08.1-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113298 Oct 2 10:45 kdelibs4support-5.86.0-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7436 Oct 2 10:45 kdenetwork-filesharing-21.08.1-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35809 Oct 2 10:46 kdenlive-21.08.1-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70020 Oct 2 10:46 kdepim-addons-21.08.1-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107859 Oct 2 10:46 kdepim-runtime-21.08.1-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143896 Oct 2 10:46 kdeplasma-addons-5.22.5-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5201 Oct 2 10:46 kdesdk-kioslaves-21.08.1-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5089 Oct 2 10:46 kdesdk-thumbnailers-21.08.1-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13049 Oct 2 10:46 kdesignerplugin-5.86.0-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6946 Oct 8 11:22 kdesu-5.86.0-x86_64-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14121 Oct 2 10:47 kdev-python-5.6.2-x86_64-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168429 Oct 2 10:47 kdevelop-5.6.2-x86_64-5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1962 Oct 2 10:47 kdewebkit-5.86.0-x86_64-2
root@localhost:/var/lib/pkgtools/packages#

OK. I've got it: I went into /usr/bin and did chmod -x startplasma*
But there must be a more elegant way...

If you really want the packages gone, comment "kde/" out of /etc/slackpkg/blacklist. Then, run "slackpkg remove kde". This should remove the entire kde series. Then uncomment "kde/" again so they don't come back.

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You should reinstall system without packages in kde. Or create list of packages from installation medium perhaps iso image, and compare with /var/log/ packages. But if want to provide some feedback use kde, test i post what is you dislike. It is still -current release. More of us using full installation more chances we can something really nasty. Once stable will be released then it won't matter anymore. But essentially If you can I encourage to have somewhere current all the time on bare metal.

Good advice! You can also re-install the VM with a full install and just choose XFCE as your DE. If your VM has size constraints then I guess you can re-install and leave out all KDE packages. A full install is not that big and having KDE installed while using XFCE will not impact system performance. It is nice to have KDE installed when using XFCE as your DE as you can then have access to KDE applications. KDE applications run just fine when using XFCE. Having a bare metal installation of Slackware-current is wonderful.

That didn't work... or at least it didn't find any KDE packages.

It's not the size that annoys me. It's that I really don't like KDE. I much prefer XFC#, Mate, or i3wm.
Also, I don't need the extra "bloat" that comes with the full system. For example: I counted 4 web browsers! As well as a host of applications that I neither want not need.

I'm going do a fresh install of my VM with just XFCE, as you suggested. I'll wait until the official release and probably replace my Arch system with Slackware. I've learned over the years not to put too much faith in Beta releases!

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That's strange. Is there anything about kde in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist?

I removed it, as you suggested.

OK, I think I see what happened.

It looks like the 'extra' packages have all had upgrades since October 9th or 10th. At some point, "slackpkg update" moved their versions ahead on your system's list, and then they weren't upgraded since they were on the blacklist. Since they no longer appear on the list of packages for kde/, slackpkg can't do the remove operation properly.

"slackpkg clean-system" might get rid of them. If that doesn't work, try "slackpkg update", "slackpkg upgrade-all", and then "slackpkg remove kde".

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okay,
my advice would be to keep the packages and follow what phenixia2003 and hitest said:
-leave the kde packages from the full install
-set xwmconfig to xfce (or fluxbox)
-select xsession default on the sddm login screen

I completely understand and I support your choice to remove KDE. However, the "bloat" as you refer to does not impact system performance in any way, that is, the packages sitting there just take up some space and unless you have an ancient HD a few extra MB won't matter. The KDE packages won't slow down your system. The KDE packages bring more functionality to your XFCE desktop. Konqueror is also an FTP client. There's Ktorrent, an excellent bittorrent client. And I love the KDE games.
This is just my opinion. The wonderful thing about Slackware is we can customize our systems our way.
There is one danger for new users to Slackware. That is, if you start randomly removing packages you can break your system. So remove packages if you know what you're doing. I'm not implying that you're a novice user.

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