On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:54 PM, David Cantrell<da...@cantrell.org.uk> 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 think in general, depending on how long the box has been around and how much clutter it's accumulated, it's probably easiest to back up your files and reinstall. Non-gnome flavours of Ubuntu can be found around the web: http://www.kubuntu.org/ (KDE) http://www.xubuntu.org/ (xfce4) http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatIsubuntu/serveredition (no Xorg installed by default) Disclaimer: I've not tried any of those except the server edition, which I then installed Gnome onto. The "correct" way to do it is to uninstall the "ubuntu-dekstop" package and install the "kubuntu-desktop"/"xubuntu-desktop" etc. packages, however my apt-fu isn't strong enough to actually trust that that will do what you mean. Hope that helps, - Alex