Gnome makes me want to strangle kittens

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Wed Jul 8 10:22:16 BST 2009


On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:27:44PM +0100, James Laver wrote:
> On 7 Jul 2009, at 17:54, David Cantrell wrote:
> >How does one de-Gnomeify a Ubuntu box?  Its spectacularly broken
> >focus-follows-mouse and hideously ugly window mangler and "panels"
> >Just Have To Go.
> I believe you can aptitude install xyz-desktop && aptitude purge  
> ubuntu-desktop, where xyz is one of the supported desktop names  
> contorted aroudnd the word 'ubuntu'.
> 'kubuntu', 'xubuntu' will work, if the process works at all..

xubuntu-desktop appears to be all Gnomey too, and only supports one
monitor.

Ah yes, Linux: definitely ready for the desktop

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