use xfce only on slackware
 

Hi
How to remove kdem blackbox .. etc
i only need xfce..
any advice ?

Why remove them? They are just lying there on the hard drive not hurting anything. With modern hard drives, the amount of space they consume is inconsequential. Also, if XFCE breaks, you might find it useful to have some backups for using X (I know that XFCE's breaking is unlikely, but I did once have XFCE break under Slackware 10.x, which led to my long-term love affair with Fluxbox).

Also, specifically regarding KDE, I doubt removing it would be a good idea, as the KDE libraries are required to run many of the programs included with Slackware, including programs whose names do not begin with "K." Removing KDE is extremely likely to have unexpected consequences on a running system.

If you must, you can remove specific packages using pkgtool as root (there are other tools, but I do like pkgtool), but be sure to back up your crucial data before doing so.

Removing KDE is usually harmless. A lot of people avoid installing it.

Thanks, moisespedro. I would not be one of them, though. I do really like many of the KDE applications, though I don't like KDE as a desktop.

thanks guys
i need to remove them becouse after change from kde to xfce the kde session still running ..
How to kill session
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another question .. why kde and xfce looks like windows me ?
how to make xfce beautifullike this ?
http://cdn.xfce.org/about/screenshots/4.10-4.png

Yep. There are lot of nice KDE apps that I like to run on XFCE. For example I really like the KDE burning program k3b.

If you booted up the machine and went straight into Xfce, then KDE should not be running unless you have Xfce setup to start "kde services."
Regardless, you can open the Xfce Task Manager and terminate the offending kde programs running in the background.


Agreed. K3b, Gwenview, KPat, Kwrite and dolphin or konqueror as a file manager (but I prefer Midnight Commander).
I've tried just about every graphics viewer out there, but keep going back to Gwenview. The GIMP and Gwenview are a great combination.

Go to xfce-look, there's plenty of themes and other customizations to choose from.

thank you guys ..

I like kde but usually don't install it when installing slack. I usually install xfce or mate.

I personally use just use xfce until I have unity in a stable state and use a bunch of sbo and some (to submit to sbo) as a substitute for what I would be missing from the lack of the KDE set and or libs installed. To remove KDE and build your way from a ground up (of missing useful things) you can always just navigate to your install medias "slackware" folder and; for i in $(ls kde/) ; do removepkg $i ;done .. If you're too "lazy" to parse the contents into a text file for a package list of course :)

There might be a better way to acknowledge the package list from slackpkg.. My expiernce will always be little with this front

I run Xfce but keep everything installed due to dependencies and having other applications like Kate to do scriptworks because it does syntax checking.

You don't have to remove KDE to use Xfce effectively. In fact you should keep the software, and just use a DM or xwmconfig to set up the default desktop.

I think one can do:

to remove the packages in the kde set, and:

to blacklist the packages so that they do not show up in upgrades.

Wiki: http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:slackpkg