On 03/25/2016 11:05 AM, Bear Tooth wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 10:23:17 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
All this sort of depends on what you all mean by "gnome packages"
because the gnome folks maintain a lot of base packages that many other
things depend on. ie, Xfce wouldn't exist without gtk2,
xfce4-power-manager requires upower, etc.
In any case it's up to you what you want installed.
My bad. I know I want my basic desktop from Xfce, though I also
use some apps from Gnome and a couple from KDE; I'm doing that now on my
other machines.
I normally install an xfce spin, and run yumex or the like at
least twice: once showing what's installed (looking for things to
remove); and once showing what's available (spotting things to add).
This time I happened to download the workstation rather than the
server version; but my tweaked (twoken?) install is somewhere between
those two.
I've been doing this since about '98 (when I retired), and my
fingers know where most icons are, on which panels. So Xfce saves me a
lot of time by keeping panels and icons. (The stuff under the hood
fascinates me, but actuary tables tell me I'll most likely last only a
few more years, and my doctor concurs.)
I'm in process of trying Rick Stevens's suggestion, next time I
get back to that machine. Anybody happen to know a way to c&p between
machines on a KVM switch? Or even whether a quick way exists? (scp -r for
whole files is fine, but a bit like sledge-hammering a gnat for single
commands.)
I use two monitors (one on each machine) and I use synergy to share my
keyboard and mouse between the two machines. C&P works (highlight with
mouse on one machine, move mouse to other machine, middle-mouse-button
to paste). The RPM is synergy-1.6.2-3.fc23.x86_64.
Just an idea.
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