Installing linux for use with a virtual pc.

[.Maleficus.]

Use Synaptic to uninstall one. Search for it in the list, Mark for Complete Removal, done.

[luciusad2004]

Ok thanks. I just wasn't sure if that would get rid of all of the applications that came along w/ the environment.

[.Maleficus.]

Hmmmm... On second thought, hold off a bit.

I'm not sure if it will remove dependencies for the apps. You could make a bunch of profiles for each DE... That would consolidate stuff...

[luciusad2004]

I just did it actually and I don't think i did it right.

I circled what i uninstalled. I logged in to gnome to do this.

This is a shot of what i uninstalled from within KDE

Just a guess but I don't think i uninstalled the right thing. lol

I should start installing this stuff through synaptic so that i know what i need to uninstall if i want to remove it. I've been using apt-get to install environments.

[.Maleficus.]

LOL I think you're right. In that case, I have no idea.

[luciusad2004]

I got it off. I used sudo apt-get remove kde.

That kindly told me to GTFO but suggested that apt-get autoremove might be able to help.

So i did that and went to cook me so stir-fry while KDE was removed.

Now i just have to figure out what I'm going to do about xfce

[luciusad2004]

I can't find the screen saver utility that lets me change my screensavers. Does anyone know were it is under gnome? I still have xscreensaver installed because it pops up whenever i touch my mouse after the display is put to sleep so it must be here somewhere. I'm looking all over in the menus but can't find it.

Is it possible uninstalling KDE removed the utility that lets me set up my screensaver?

Edit: After some googling it looks it isn't were it should be in the menu so i have no clue how to access it.

[IndyRacer27]

Do you have gnome-screensaver installed? If you do and it isn't in System -> Preferences -> Screensaver, gnome-screensaver-preferences in a terminal will bring it up. You may also want to install rss-glx. This will give you many more screensavers than the default ones.

[luciusad2004]

Do you have gnome-screensaver installed? If you do and it isn't in System -> Preferences -> Screensaver, gnome-screensaver-preferences in a terminal will bring it up. You may also want to install rss-glx. This will give you many more screensavers than the default ones.

Hmm, apparently I didn't have it installed. I don't know were it would have went though. Anyway i reinstalled it and it is back in my menu. I'll install the new screensavers to although, to be hones,t I usually only use basic ones because alot of the screensavers I do have run painfully slow. Thanks!

Now i just to find out what is wrong with xfce. When i try to log in to xfce i get the splash screen. Once i get past that i just have a white screen and i can't do anything. I tried to uninstall/reinstall the xubuntu-desktop package but that didn't help. Google didn't help me either.

Edit: After playing around I had a question: Is there a way to change screensaver settings. For instance if I use GLText Is there a way to change the text? I used that screensaver under fluxbox and i could edit the text but Gnome doesn't seem to have that ability. Do i have to edit configuration files instead?

[IndyRacer27]

Is there a way to change screensaver settings.

I haven't noticed this before. Apparently gnome-screensaver doesn't allow you to change these setttings. However, if you use xscreensaver instead, you should be able to change them. This is most likely the screensaver you had in the first place.

As far as your problem with xfce, I'm certainly not an expert, but it sounds to me like your xserver is messed up. After you uninstalled kde, you probably just need to adjust your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Google will help more than I can with that.