2013-07-04
I boot up my Debian Testing XFCE machine, login to a slow startup and surprise it's F'ing gnome 3 shell.
WTF?!?!?! This is not what I had in mind for 4th of July fireworks. I hate this bullshit! Seriously, Debian testing just installed gnome without my authority!??!?! (Granted, yes i know nothing happens without authority -- updates suck sometimes)
sudo aptitude purge gnome-applets gnome-session-fallback gnome-control-center-data gnome-control-center gnome-media gnome-online-accounts gnome-bluetooth gnome-panel-data gnome-panel mousetweaks gnome-panel gnome-session gnome-shell ; sudo reboot
ahhhh much better!!!!
but now i'm aggravated...
sudo shutdown -h now walking away...
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I felt exactly the same way after selecting xfce desktop in the Debian installer and then being confronted by an infernal gnome 3 shell. I then did a basic install without desktop env - arguing that I could install xfce manually afterwards.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, in order to save time (or so I thought), I made the mistake of installing task-xfce-desktop. Turns out that this is the one that pulls in all the gnome dependencies; my guess is that this is the very same package flagged for installation when selecting xfce-desktop from the installer. Finally got it right by doing another base system install, followed by installation of package xfce.
This was done on a VM in order to check out the latest testing release (Jessie) and play around with Btrfs. I switched my desktop & laptop to xfce soon after gnome 3 was released - using the then-current testing distro (wheezy) - and also installed the same on a friend's laptop just a month or two ago, and had none of this type of cr**p going on.
If nothing else, this experience served to reaffirm to me how much faster and user-friendly xfce is compared to gnome 3.
Thanks for the opportunity to rant a bit.
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
ReplyDeleteTo install Xfce on debian 7 wheezy
# apt-get install xorg xfce4 xfce4-goodies thunar-archive-plugin synaptic gdebi wicd
To install extra XFCE packages
# apt-get install xdg-utils xfce4-power-manager xfce4-goodies htop bzip2 zip unzip unrar-free
There are more gui to choose from http://namhuy.net/1085/install-gui-on-debian-7-wheezy.html