[ F21 ] How to remove GNOME

[Sam Varshavchik]

Martin Cigorraga writes:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I'm a newcomer to Fedora and still learning its ways so excuse me if my  
> question sounds stupid.
> Now, I want to remove GNOME from my install as I use i3; from what I saw  
> there's no gnome-group or similar goup available, how should I proceed?

You want to remove Gnome, and then what? Without Gnome, you do not have an X  
desktop.

Perhaps you want to switch from Gnome to another window manager, like XFCE  
or KDE. Well, after installing the appropriate group, you should have an  
option to switch your session to the new window manager, when logging in.

Although, in my case, when I finally had enough of Gnome, and switched to  
XFCE, I found that my login user environment was too polluted with various  
Gnome-related flotsam, even after I logged into XFCE. To make a clean break,  
I had to create a new userid, move/change ownership of all documents and  
files, to the new userid, then delete the old one.

Of course, all of the old baggage still remains installed, after that. A  
small waste of disk space, mostly. I should, one of these days, go over and  
clean up as much of the unused Gnome stuff as I can find.

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