[solved]Removing Xfce4

I initially installed Xfce4, but I have moved to gnome. Can I uninstall it without messing up my system?
Last edited by Gauvenator (2008-05-04 03:50:12)

OK so I run that, get an error about dependencies. I modified it to this:
pacman -Rs xfce4 xfce4-goodies
and now it says screenlets is dependent on notification-daemon. When I try to remove everything but the notification-daemon-xfce, then the notification-daemon is dependant on another package.
How can I configure screenlets to be dependant on something else? I'm pretty sure it doesn't require Xfce.
Last edited by Gauvenator (2008-04-30 20:06:01)

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Last edited by hydrosIII (2013-11-29 17:20:47)

hydrosIII wrote:
eyemonen: Thank you, in fact when i said logout menu i was refering to the applications menu. Just in the bottom there is a logout entry. this entry normally (i think) displays an action menu when you click on it.
But i just discovered the plugin that you said and it works fine, to logout and change user, etc. I will investigate about the applications menu. to see if it works
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kaipee wrote:
Aah, right thanks Inxsible.
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It would have been nice if you wrote how you solved the problem: this way it will be a reference for future users with the same issue.
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you "Nevermind, I solved it!"
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DarkSector wrote:
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Last edited by aldoiljazi (2013-09-18 07:35:11)

okay i run 'sudo grub-mkconfig'
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set next_entry=
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else
set default="0"
fi
if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
menuentry_id_option=""
fi
export menuentry_id_option
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save_env prev_saved_entry
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if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
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fi
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if [ -f ${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then
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fi
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### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/60_memtest86+ ###
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[SOLVED] Removing gnome

Hey guys and girls,
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I have run these commands so far
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Last edited by CoolWhip (2011-05-06 08:52:50)

CoolWhip wrote:
yeh, I thought that, but it seems that everything still works fine.. and if I come across any thing that needs reinstalling ill reinstall it. And if thats true, apparently wicd was dependent on gnome packages.. but im still online, so go figure.
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Hi everybody,
I wanted to try the new Gnome on my laptop and I installed it following the wiki with the command:
sudo pacman -S gnome gnome-shell gnome-extra gdm
I really like it (both the "standard" and the classic interfaces), but unfortunately it makes my laptop quite slow,
therefore I would like to remove it leaving only MATE on my desktop.
I noticed that Gnome partially conflicts with my MATE desktop (for example in a Gnome Classic session I would expect Nautilus
to be the default file browser, instead caja is opened), therefore I would like to know if there is some safe way to remove
all the installed packages without messing out with MATE.
Thanks in advance!
Solution here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117144
Last edited by lucacerone (2014-04-02 00:16:29)

Ok I think I found out on my own (searching on google send me to an Arch forum thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117144, but I was looking for it in the wrong section).
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[SOLVED]Removing gnome 3.x now that cinnamon 2.x no longer requires it

I've had gnome and cinnamon on my system for a while but am no longer really using gnome.
From cinnamon 2.0, there are various reports that cinnamon is independent of gnome (although I think it still depends on some other gnome-* packages).
I'm trying to remove gnome as a DE, while retaining whatever packages are required by cinnamon.
I tried running the following command:
# pacman -Rns gnome gnome-extra
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checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
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:: gnome-documents: requires gnome-desktop
:: gnome-documents: requires tracker
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:: gnome-online-miners: requires tracker
:: gnome-panel: requires gnome-desktop
:: gnome-photos: requires gnome-desktop
:: gnome-photos: requires tracker
:: gnome-screensaver: requires gnome-desktop
:: gnome-settings-daemon-compat: requires gnome-settings-daemon
:: gnome-tweak-tool: requires gnome-settings-daemon
:: gtkhtml4: requires gnome-icon-theme
:: libgweather: requires gnome-icon-theme
:: nemo: requires gnome-icon-theme
:: network-manager-applet: requires gnome-icon-theme
:: rhythmbox: requires gnome-icon-theme
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Last edited by multipitch (2013-10-30 22:34:59)

Thanks karol,
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pacman -Rns baobab empathy eog epiphany evince gnome-backgrounds gnome-calculator gnome-contacts gnome-control-center gnome-dictionary gnome-disk-utility gnome-font-viewer gnome-icon-theme-extras gnome-keyring gnome-screenshot gnome-session gnome-shell gnome-system-log gnome-system-monitor gnome-terminal gnome-user-docs gnome-user-share mousetweaks mutter nautilus sushi totem tracker vino xdg-user-dirs-gtk yelp accerciser aisleriot anjuta brasero cheese devhelp evolution file-roller five-or-more four-in-a-row gnome-chess gnome-clocks gnome-color-manager gnome-devel-docs gnome-documents gnome-getting-started-docs gnome-klotski gnome-mahjongg gnome-mines gnome-nettool gnome-nibbles gnome-photos gnome-robots gnome-sudoku gnome-tetravex gnome-weather iagno lightsoff nautilus-sendto orca quadrapassel rygel swell-foop tali vinagre
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[solved]remove backslashes from file names?

Hi!
I have a lot of files that contain backslashes in file name, spread over many many folders.
How do I remove that character from all file names? The approaches / scripts / programs I usually work with can't handle the invalid file names (e.g. loose the '\' and then 'cant stat()' -.-").
Thanks!
edit: Argh... now I've got copies of half of the files without the "\" in the same folders, because copying did work on most but deleting only on some... also multiple \\\ because I messed up one sed line. and "echo" failed to warn me about the result, just dropping a few \ while mv didn't... or something. So confused.
Last edited by whoops (2011-02-22 00:22:58)

sisco311 wrote:#!/usr/bin/env bash
while IFS= read -rd '' file; do
dirname="${file%/*}"
basename="${file##*/}"
mv --backup=numbered -- "${file}" "${dirname}/${basename//\\/_}"
done < <(find /full/path/to/dir -depth -name '*\\*' -print0)
Thanks, that did it!
Don't know what exactly I've been doing wrong, but it seems not to happen any more since I try to do stuff with "while, read, ${}" instead of "for, $(), echo, sed"
pulce wrote:Not sure that's the point, but backslash is an escape
Yes, I know, that was the problem. That's why those stupid things always keep either disappearing or multiplying - I guess I just suck at keeping track of what program handles them which way and depending on what.
Last edited by whoops (2011-02-22 00:15:30)

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word1
word2
word3
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Last edited by orphius1970 (2010-04-22 12:05:45)

sorry I am new to scripting and Have NEVER used sed.
Can you explain a little better?
Ok i tried it and understand a little better. However,
It left space behind. How do I fix that?
Also, how do I get it to save the file with the changes?
Sorry If I seem so noobie
Last edited by orphius1970 (2010-04-22 11:27:18)

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