getting rid of gnome

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 00:46 +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
> What is the official way to get rid of either gnome, or just its
> default WM (metacity?) (I'm not sure where one ends and the other
> begins) and replace it (or just the WM) with another, lightweight WM?

The desktop environment (DE) consists of a lot more than just the window
manager. In fact the wm is unlikely to be the "heaviest" thing around
nowadays.

You can install other desktop environments without removing Gnome, e.g.:

yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"

or

yum groupinstall XFCE

In fact you probably don't want to remove Gnome as a lot of extra stuff
comes with it, much of which you can also use from a different DE.

poc