On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 11:21 -0500, ogardarsson wrote: > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > Does mean you are using a text-only system or that you're using a different desktop, e.g KDE or XFCE? > > I have XFCE installed on this particular server but not Gnome. > Understood. I frequently run apps that way, but without using VNC to get a remote desktop. I'm not fond of XFCE but have discovered two disadvantages of VNC configuring it to use Gnome: (1) the colour is terrible since VNC uses no more than 256 bit colour and (2) this messes with the local X-term settings, though this may not bother you if you don't use local logins: I do and every time I logged I was asked whether I wanted to use Gnome or X-term display settings. Fortunately this stopped when I upgraded from F8 -> F10. Instead I just configure ssh to permit X11 forwarding and use an ssh session to start remote GUI applications. > Maybe I should just install [Gnome] and remove it later. > I suspect you'll end up doing that. I take it that you have no hosts with KDE but no Gnome: it would be interesting to know if WINE printing works with KDE. > I just don't know how it will go with the removal. Will I have a ton > of libraries and stuff taking up space? > It might be useful to know how much space it occupies. Can you record disk space used with 'df' before and after installing Gnome: the difference must be the size of Gnome. I for one would be like to know how much space Gnome occupies. > I guess I should test removing it on a test copy of a VPS to see how > goes. > My guess is that removing Gnome again will stop printing from working. Martin
