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Topic: [Sovled] Completely removing Xfce/Openbox to install different wm

I've installed Statler Xfce on Vbox, and I want to play around with Awesome window manager on Statler. That is I'm trying to completely remove the Xfce desktop environment, be left with a cli version of Statler, and then install Awesome. How do I completely remove Xfce including all it's related apps?

EDIT: So on IRC they said to install debian instead and take it from there. I'm going that route.

Last edited by jargon (2010-05-21 17:13:33)

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Re: [Sovled] Completely removing Xfce/Openbox to install different wm

Why not just start with a minimal Debian netinstall?

http://www.debian.org/distrib/

CrunchBang is simply Debian with a groovy Xfce/OpenBox configuration (and a friendly community).

It is also worth mentioning that removing Xfce would have no benefit (unless you have a tiny hard drive and need those mb's).

But, if you want to proceed with your project, the simplest thing is to read the package list and remove whatever you don't want/need: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/60575/#p60575

Compare the Xfce and Openbox package list; remove anything unique to the Xfce list. smile

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Re: [Sovled] Completely removing Xfce/Openbox to install different wm

Just add awesome wm and edit login manager.
You can also run autostart.sh to launch some programs at start (parcellite, conky)

Openbox&xfce4 wm are small programs.

Other apps you'll need anyway (thunar etc).

Last edited by klanger (2010-05-21 17:52:22)

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Re: [Sovled] Completely removing Xfce/Openbox to install different wm

If you really want to remove Xfce I'd run 

sudo apt-get remove xfce4 xfce4-terminal xfce4-power-manager xfce4-screenshooter xfce4-notes

then

sudo apt-get autoremove
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