starting with XFCE4 (ignore: Different problem!)

The Matt thompsma at colorado.edu
Fri Dec 12 01:10:15 CET 2003


Jack Coates wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 11:06, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
> 
>>Ignore this note; I have a different problem with xfce and need to
>>obliterate it (and reinstall it).  For some reason, I have XFCE starting
>>up inside of KDE, so I have two sets of window managers superimposed on
>>one another!
>>
>>Is there a script to use rpm -e to delete each xfce component so that I
>>can reinstall it?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>dj tuchler
> 
> ...
> 
> for i in `rpm -qa | grep xfce4`; do rpm -e --nodeps $i; done
> 
> removing rpm's with a script is risky business, by the way.

And how.  It takes a brave man/woman to do that.  One thing, though, 
there also exists xfdesktop*, xfprint*, xffm*, the xfce-* (no 4), an 
libxfcegui4* with some distributions of XFce4 that won't be taken by 
this script.

Matt
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