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Hi all,
i am sorry this question has been asked several times (years ago).
I have installed gnome3 and kde on my pc. I would like to try xfce now, do not call me crazy please 
By the way I would like to keep the system clean, and now fully uninstall kde and gnome3 and all packages installed by them.
Is there a clean way to do this with pacman? Otherwise I think I have to uninstall main packages in reverse order of the installation. maybe starting from the related archwiki page
#2 2019-02-23 21:09:39
Re: fully uninstall kde
There is no global way, and thats because there also packages and stuff used by multiple Desktops, and also you may use applications from other DE… But you have the package groups:
sudo pacman -Rns plasma-meta kde-applications-meta
will do the job mostly >> it is better to do this in the terminal not inside pamac-gui!
what means the -Rns ??
R = remove
n = pacman saves important configuration files when removing certain applications and names them with the extension: .pacsave. To prevent the creation of these backup files use the -n option
s = To remove a package and its dependencies which are not required by any other installed package.
Google is your friend.
#3 2019-02-23 21:10:08
Re: fully uninstall kde
Just uninstall whatever it is you installed — and as you should always do when uninstalling, include the -s flag and -n flag.
"UNIX is simple and coherent. " — Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" - Richard Stallman
#4 2019-02-23 21:18:03
Re: fully uninstall kde
There is no global way, and thats because there also packages and stuff used by multiple Desktops, and also you may use applications from other DE… But you have the package groups:
sudo pacman -Rns plasma-meta kde-applications-meta
will do the job mostly >> it is better to do this in the terminal not inside pamac-gui!
what means the -Rns ??
R = remove
n = pacman saves important configuration files when removing certain applications and names them with the extension: .pacsave. To prevent the creation of these backup files use the -n option
s = To remove a package and its dependencies which are not required by any other installed package.
Google is your friend.
thanks Ailen, for the link and I agree with you: Google has always been my friend
Just for you to know, I would not have started a new thread without checking first with my "friend".
I had already tried that solution. unsuccessfully
Помогите удалить KDE
Господа, прошу помочь удалить из arch kde и подчистить за ней. Хочу по сути снести кеды и поставить sway, снести kwin и снести sddm кедовский. Еще надо снести xorg, по той простой причине что он мне надоел, буду под вяленым сидеть. Почему вейланд? потому что несмотря на сырость у меня нет под ним лагов интерфейса, артефактов и прочей билеберды которую несет поднадоевший xorg.
Удалять кеды нужно по той простой причине, что я не осилил bismuth.ну это тайловое расширение. Какой то кривой. Но единожды попробовав тайлинг возвращаться более к обычному плавающему поведению окон не хочется.
Прошу неравнодушных помочь с этим делом. Я не знаю на самом деле как снести кеды так, чтобы софтины остались работать. Дольфина жалко конечно, но я готов принести его в жертву.
Как удалить KDE 5
Дело не хитрое. В терминале выполняем и ждем загрузки с установкой KDE 5.
Посидел с пол часа под новой DE и увидел, что большинство косяков которые мне не нравились разработчики так и не исправили. В первую очередь это кривые виджеты которые не понятно как менять в размере.
Решил удалить KDE Plasma и вернуться на Gnome.
Как выяснилось — удалить KDE очень просто
Во-первых, вернем gdm3
Во-вторых, удалим все пакеты KDE
В-третьих, в менеджере пакетов находим и удаляем все пакеты в которых есть слово kubuntu или plasma. Я удалял с помощью менеджера пакетов Synaptic (больше шанс не удалить лишнего).
Перезагружаемся и радуемся возвращению GNOME 3.
Мы удалили окружение рабочего стола, но в системе останутся некоторые программы установленные с KDE. Чтобы их удалить откройте центр приложений, перейдите в раздел Установленные и удалите программы относящиеся к KDE (первая буква K в названии или в описании встречается слово KDE).
dale anson
So I was just playing around, I used to run KDE all the time (years ago) and thought I’d give it another try.
Installation was easy:
sudo pacman -S xorg plasma plasma-wayland-session kde-applications
It turns out that KDE still isn’t for me, it’s a little slow and clunky for my 10 year old laptop, so I’ll remove it. That’s a little harder:
sudo pacman -Rns plasma plasma-wayland-session kde-applications
Didn’t work. Notice I didn’t include xorg, I probably didn’t need it installed along with KDE since I already had it all installed. The problem was dependencies.
So I tried just uninstalling plasma:
sudo pacman -Rns plasma plasma-wayland-session
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing libksysguard breaks dependency ‘libksysguard’ required by kdevelop
:: removing plasma-workspace breaks dependency ‘plasma-workspace’ required by kget
:: removing libkscreen breaks dependency ‘libkscreen’ required by lxqt-config
:: removing plasma-workspace breaks dependency ‘plasma-workspace’ required by telepathy-kde-desktop-applets
So I’ll just remove kdevelop:
$ sudo pacman -Rns kdevelop
checking dependencies.
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing kdevelop breaks dependency ‘kdevelop’ required by kdevelop-php
Okay, I’ll just remove kdevelop-php:
$ sudo pacman -Rns kdevelop-php
checking dependencies.
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing kdevelop-php breaks dependency ‘kdevelop-php’ required by umbrello
So remove umbrello: Yep! And it removed kdevelop and kdevelop-php at the same time!
danson@deadlock:
$ sudo pacman -Rns umbrello
Try to remove plasma again:
$ sudo pacman -Rns plasma plasma-wayland-session
checking dependencies.
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing plasma-workspace breaks dependency ‘plasma-workspace’ required by kget
:: removing libkscreen breaks dependency ‘libkscreen’ required by lxqt-config
:: removing plasma-workspace breaks dependency ‘plasma-workspace’ required by telepathy-kde-desktop-applets
Okay, so whack kget: Yep!
danson@deadlock:
$ sudo pacman -Rns kget
Try plasma again:
$ sudo pacman -Rns plasma plasma-wayland-session
checking dependencies.
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing libkscreen breaks dependency ‘libkscreen’ required by lxqt-config
:: removing plasma-workspace breaks dependency ‘plasma-workspace’ required by telepathy-kde-desktop-applets
danson@deadlock:
$ sudo pacman -Rns telepathy-kde-desktop-applets
That worked, also removed lxqt-config, then reinstalled it, since I’m going to be running lqxt.
Now plasma goes away!
$ sudo pacman -Rns plasma plasma-wayland-session
$ sudo pacman -S lxqt-config
And finally remove the KDE application packages:
$ sudo pacman -Rns kde-applications
That’s it. Not particularly straightforward, but easy enough to get all this stuff off of my laptop.