Removing pre-installed apps

Michael R Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Mon Aug 15 15:48:37 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 15:35 +0100, Anthony Gardner wrote:
> I don't know a way but it's a pain in the arse.
> 
> I appreciate that distro's are trying to make it
> easier for newcomers to get into Linux 'n all that but
> for more advanced users, you really lose control of
> things.
> 
> I can't even find how to do keyboard shortcuts for my
> apps.

Which apps? If you install the gtweakui package, you'll get a preference
applet (under System/Preferences) called "gTweakUI - Menus" which allows
you to enable "Can change menu accelerators." With that enabled, many
GTK/GNOME apps will let you hover the mouse over a menu entry while you
type an accelerator (like Ctrl-Z or whatever). Then that shortcut will
perform that action.

> there used to be a run command short cut on distro's
> now either it's dissapeared or it's well hideen. OR,
> maybe I'm getting stupid in me old age.

If you open up the "Keyboard Shortcuts" preferences applet, you'll find
a number of commands that can be triggered by keystroke. By default
you'll find <Alt>F2 set to "Show the panel run application
dialog" (which pops up a "Run application" window with commandline
entry).

mike

> 
> It's probably the latter.
> 
> 
> 
> --- Steve <bassix at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there a way to remove an app (such as Evolution,
> > etc.) WITHOUT removing 
> > "Ubuntu Desktop"? In Synaptic, when I select
> > anything that was installed 
> > from the CD, it automatically selects to remove the
> > Ubuntu desktop (which I 
> > tried once, which causes it not to boot into X...
> > you have to log in at 
> > command prompt and then do a startx).
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > -Steve.
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