[ubuntu-uk] Removing GNOME

[Paul Sutton]

Liam Proven wrote:
> I've just installed 8.04 on an elderly laptop (PII-450, 256MB RAM). I
> only had a vanilla GNOME LiveCD, so I've used that.
>
> I've tried installing xubuntu-desktop instead and Xfce is indeed a bit
> faster on this low-spec PC.
>
> How can I now remove GNOME?
>
> The hard disk is only 16G, so I don't have disk space to burn.
>
>   
if you remove gnome you may lose access to some of the apps that came 
with gnome, 

xfce will allow you to load the gnome apps, from within xfce just using 
the various libraries and other dependancies.

well as far as I know it will

Paul