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Asked: 2020-05-21 04:01:21 +0800 CST

Gnome and Xfce at the same time?

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I thought that I had changed my Ubuntu to a Xubuntu by switching to xfce desktop (Ubuntu 20.04). Though, when I enter gnome-shell --version in the terminal, I get GNOME Shell 3.36.1.

When I enter printenv | grep XDG I get:

XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu:/etc/xdg XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0 XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=xubuntu XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm-data/mafalda XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=XFCE XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/xfce4:/usr/share/xubuntu:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop

And sudo dpkg -l | grep gnome lists a lot of GNOME packages.

Is that normal? I am trying to tidy up my system a little after recognizing I had several screensavers installed that were maybe interfering with each other.

Does Xfce need the GNOME packages (like gnome-bluetooth, gnome-power-manager...), or can I uninstall them?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Xfce is well-designed desktop, so it have needed components for bluetooth, power and so on.
    I would recommend to save GNOME Disk Utility in your Xfce system (gnome-disk-utility package).

    If not sure what to remove - you can always run a simulation of packages removal with special APT option:

    apt-get remove --simulate gnome-control-center

    and then decide to remove the package with sudo apt-get remove gnome-control-center or not.

    If you want to remove GNOME Stuff completely - you can use the list from my other answer here, but be careful.

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