Removing KDE?

[Mad_Sunday]

I used to love KDE3.5 but I don't get on with KDE4 at all. After some "issues" I gave Xfce a try and I'm liking it. Can I remove the KDE session and just have Xfce (I installed from the KDE distro).

Pete

[Joble]

I wouldn't bother unless you really need the hard drive space.  You can still use the kde apps even in Xfce if you keep the kde libs.  If you want pure Xfce you should install Phoenix.

[T6]

any help we could provide to solve the problems you had with kde4?

i would leave kde4 in place to use the libraries and apps for kde4 in xfce4

kde4 desktop is composed by many packages so removing it sounds a little complicated to me but it should be possible to do it

[Joble]

Yup T6.  Mad_Sunday if you like what you've got right now I'd just leave it like that.

[Mad_Sunday]

It still seems "iffy" to me, the info icon (widget?) keeps jumping off the taskbar and appears as a HUGE icon on the desktop. I have to remove it and add it again but it will re-offend. I don't like (understand) Dolphin at all. I guess 18 months of Gnome (which I never got on with when using KDE3.5) has made me try other apps which I now prefer. I'll just leave it there and keep playing with it. This is just a Media PC so I don't really need fancy desktop stuff, just reliability and good quality video playback, which I have with Xfce :-)

[T6]

i'm not sure what icon you mention that jumps, maybe a screenshot of the problem happening could be more illustrative on this situation?

kde4 by default has very little eyecandy enabled(compared to e17 is fugly    ), transparencies and that's it, 3d effects are disabled unless asked by the user, maybe you enabled it and don't like the results?

konqueror as file manager still exist on kde4 but dolphin feels more integrated to kde4

any specific problem with dolphin?  lots of configs can be done, mostly what people do is add a folder panel with F7 key and places panel with F9 key

the preview panel that can make slow some machines can be closed and other options can be changed to make it work almost identical to konqueror

[Mad_Sunday]

What do I do to get a screen shot? It does look kind of weird so a screen shot would be good. The "icon" is the information thing in the panel tray that looks like a letter i in a black disc. When I try file copying it opens to give descriptions of tasks but the text is often missing too.

Pete

[T6]

to take a screenshot of your desktop you can press the printscreen button on your keyboard and save the image

you can them upload to imageshack or any other file hosting server and give us the link to see what happens

sometimes when a taskbar doesn't behave properly you can remove it and then recreate it, there is a entry that creates it automatically

sometimes is easier to create a new user and see if the new user suffers the same problem

[Mad_Sunday]

Pressing the Prt Sc key didn't work, so I installed Ksnapshot from synaptic and discovered there were over 500 system updates! I have Ksnapshot working now but hopefully the updates have improved the way KDE works (Dolphin crashed while copying files after the update tho) so I'll keep playing with it.

Pete

[rubentje1991]

Before installing a new application, always do Reload >> Mark all upgrades >> Apply >> Apply....

You didn't do that this time, do it in the future (and maybe now too, to be sure you won't have problems in the future  )

[menotu]

discovered there were over 500 system updates!

Further to rubentje1991  sound advice, I think after seeing that many updates I would of updated and then rebooted, and then installed any other apps (ksnapshot etc)

Just a thought - have you considered downloading xfce and installing that - you'd then have no "baggage" from other DE's...

[Mad_Sunday]

discovered there were over 500 system updates!

Just a thought - have you considered downloading xfce and installing that - you'd then have no "baggage" from other DE's...

Wish I had done that to be honest, might have a go if KDE continues to have "issues"  :-)  I also hate the single tap feature, grrrrrrrrrrrr

Pete

[menotu]

If you want to wait a short while (probably a day or few) for Tex's announcement re the new xfce-2010.10 iso release you could start afresh.

[rubentje1991]

Single tap feature:

Do you want to double-click on a file before it opens???
Or has it something to do with your touchpad?

[Mad_Sunday]

Single tap feature:

Do you want to double-click on a file before it opens???
Or has it something to do with your touchpad?

Unfortunately BOTH, I want double click because there is no way of turning off the tap feature of this touchpad (it's built into the wireless keyboard and the PC sees it as a mouse not a touchpad) which makes it horrid to use with a single click setup and I prefer to double click anyway.

If you look at my other post about problems with this keyboard and PCLinuxOS theres probably reason enough to look for another one, perhaps with a built in track ball so I can escape the dreaded tap "feature" at the same time  :-)

Pete