changing desktops - Ubuntu => xfce ...parts of desktops?

[David Armour]

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> ubject:
> Re: changing desktops - Ubuntu => xfce
> From:
> Scott <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com>
> Date:
> Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:26:38 -0700
> To:
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> To:
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Ricardo C O Freitas spake thusly on 11/17/2006 05:27 PM:
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>> On Friday 17 November 2006 01:27, Michael T. Richter wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 2006-16-11 at 23:37 -0200, Ricardo C O Freitas wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I'm running ubuntu 6.10 and Gnome.
>>>> Is it possible to change to XFCE4 and keep gnome?
>>>>         
>>> Install "xubuntu-desktop".  Don't uninstall "ubuntu-desktop".  Then you
>>> can have both worlds.  If you really want to go wild, install
>>> "kubuntu-desktop" as well and have K too.
>>>       
>> I was trying thu synaptic!
>>
>> That was the problem! 
>>
>> To install xubuntu, synaptic wants me to REMOVE gnome!
>>
>>     
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> When you say it wants you to "remove GNOME" can you be more specific?
>
> I'm guessing it just wants you to remove a metapakage and not all of GNOME.
I hope this is related. The xscreensaver-gl was reportedly the culprit 
in xubuntu xfce4 crashes, but synaptic would also remove 
xubuntu-desktop. (How do I find out if the xscreensaver-gl bug has been 
fixed yet?) I wanted to make the cdrom drives visible and wanted to 
install ivman, but synaptic kept insisting on installing 
xubuntu-desktop, along with xscreensaver-gl! Is there a way to install 
xubuntu-desktop, *without* xscreensaver-gl (assuming it's still buggy)? TIA.