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kmathern wrote: Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:44 pm There's a command in the wiki to remove all xfce related packages: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/xfce/how-to-co ... move-xfce/

Does it work for MX 18 as the wiki mentions upto MX-17

The XFCE packages are still the same in MX 18.X, so the command will work.

Ok Great.

sagsaw wrote: Thu Apr 04, 2019 2:07 pm

kmathern wrote: Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:44 pm There's a command in the wiki to remove all xfce related packages: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/xfce/how-to-co ... move-xfce/

Does it work for MX 18 as the wiki mentions upto MX-17

How do you do the reverse then? Reinstall XFCE?

sagsaw wrote: Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:27 am

sagsaw wrote: Thu Apr 04, 2019 2:07 pm

kmathern wrote: Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:44 pm There's a command in the wiki to remove all xfce related packages: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/xfce/how-to-co ... move-xfce/

Does it work for MX 18 as the wiki mentions upto MX-17

How do you do the reverse then? Reinstall XFCE?

Hello Sagsaw,

After reading your different posts/topics, I wonder if MX is really the distro you need. Why not trying other distros like pure Debian or Sparky (if you need LXDE or Mate) ?

Re reinstall Xfce

Probably easier to just reinstall MX.
Backup your data to a different medium to safeguard.

zorzi wrote: Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:30 am

sagsaw wrote: Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:27 am

sagsaw wrote: Thu Apr 04, 2019 2:07 pm

Does it work for MX 18 as the wiki mentions upto MX-17

How do you do the reverse then? Reinstall XFCE?

Hello Sagsaw,

After reading your different posts/topics, I wonder if MX is really the distro you need. Why not trying other distros like pure Debian or Sparky (if you need LXDE or Mate) ?

Hi zorzi,

Will try to keep it short ...

Been installing trying using different Linux Distros ( did also have QNX BEOS installed too ) since 1999 ...

Every 3 year period since then for me has had different winners ...

Server for me has been always Pure Debian and offlate Ubuntu Server since 14.04.

But desktop has had shifting successes as and how distros progress with their improvements and new features and overall development work.

Till 2012 mostly its been debian after which it has been Lubuntu till the time I have been fascinated with the term LTS ...

Lubuntu is moving to LXQT and dropping its Lightweight tag and also does not intend to be a 5 year LTS Distro just as yet. I love LXDE Plus Openbox.

That started my search again since 2018 and I zeroed in on Linux Mint Mate Edition.

But then I also found MXLinux (found ???) ...

MXLinux is very fast and I think its kernel is quite well tuned for desktop use ...

How I came to this conclusion ...

Single core 32 bit VIA C7 with 4gb ram ...

Tried Slitaz, Mint Mate, Lubuntu/Ubuntu and MXLinux ... All live no install ...

SLitaz took ages to just unpack the .gz files ditto the other ... Mint was the slowest ... thats a surprise ...

Fastest boot MXLinux ... and played youtube 144p with vesa driver and no other aid pure software ...


On all other distros youtube took ages to start and the videos just did not seem to play or played frame by frame with a 10 seconds or more delay per frame ...

So obviously the MX-4.19 kernel has something going for it ...

So MXLinux looks like the one for me for Desktop (for me means not just individual but also places where I decide which OS goes on the computer) and hence I am trying now stage two ... customize it for my needs and hence the activity on the forums seeking help advice guidance and providing feedback ...

Stevo wrote: Thu Apr 04, 2019 2:56 pm The XFCE packages are still the same in MX 18.X, so the command will work.

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kmathern wrote: Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:44 pm

HTOP does not work because it requires xfce4-terminal so installed it. Any work around for the requirement of xfce4-terminal???

Synaptic from menu does not work at all.

running synaptic-pk gives error attached in the screenshot.
but running sudo synaptic-pk from terminal launches Synaptic.

sagsaw wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2019 2:01 pm HTOP does not work because it requires xfce4-terminal so installed it. Any work around for the requirement of xfce4-terminal???

I'm not seeing here that htop specifically requires xfce4-terminal.
I think htop should pretty much work with any of the terminal emulators. Did you install lxterminal (LXDE) or mate-terminal (MATE)?

sagsaw wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2019 2:01 pm running synaptic-pk gives error attached in the screenshot

That seems to be failing because it's attempting to authorise as the root user — did you supply your user password instead?

In respect of htop, I can install that in a bare console without X so there must be another package that has x-terminal-emulator as a dependency — you can install any of the terminals listed on the linked page to fulfill that dependency.