Desktop environment without the extra material?[SOLVED]

pinkcameloy · Last edited by pinkcameloy on Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:15 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello dear users

I have done a fresh install yesterday on my gentoo and today i am planning to install a desktop environment. My question is if i t is possible for me to install a desktop environment without any other following material. For example if i install kde it will pprobably also install konqueror and amarok.
Can i just install only the desktop enviroment and from then on try to install he programms manually?

By the way i am thinking of installing xfce?do you recommend?why?why not?

Have a nice day
pinkcameloy

dj_farid · l33t Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 613

Hi,

First question: Yes.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml

Second question: You will not get a good answer for this question. Everyone has their own taste.
You have to install xfce to feel how it feels.

tylerwylie · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:59 am Post subject:

XFCE is a great choice, there's also gnome-light builds you can use that install barebones gnome, and as previously mentioned, the kde split ebuilds.

pinkcameloy · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:02 am Post subject:

I just looked a bit at the wili and it seems there must not be any light xfce one.is this true or did i not search correctly?

dj_farid · l33t Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 613

Xfce is light from the start.
If you want light, you can try fluxbox. It is even lighter.

pinkcameloy · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject:

Dear users i wanted to ask you a simple question.
after this first installation through the handbook is it recommended that i install a desktop environment like xfce as it is described in the gentoo wiki or are there things that i should do first that should be done

pinkcameloy

dj_farid · l33t Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 613

Do according to the different wikis.

Also make sure to install kdm, gdm or some other manager that makes it easier to switch the desktop environment.

pinkcameloy · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject:

this kdm and gdm have to do with kde and gnome respectively. do i have to install these in order to be able to install xfce?
and nanother thing...
I was talking to a friend now and he told me that he sees no xorg in my etc and or x11 server and anything such and he told me that he believes that i should first install these
is this true?

nikaya · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1471 Location: Germany

pinkcameloy · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject:

I don t want to become boring or tiring

I will surely read this file that you told me and i ll surely do all these things that you just said because anyway i am really following the directions of the handbook
however
i need your opinion though if i also need to do the stuff about migrating and porting to the X modular that are said in the handbook right before how to configure the x server

and i also repeat something that you didn t answer to me.
can t i install xfce without messing with kde or gnome?

steveL · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject:

nikaya · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1471 Location: Germany

pinkcameloy · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject:

thank you steveL

you really covered me in the first two topics.

about the installation of xfce (please don t consider me stupid:-))) )

you said that i can install it without interfering with kdm or gdm? :-)

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dschep · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 14

dj_farid · l33t Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 613

pinkcameloy · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject:

thank you dj_farid