Xfce Disaster and Yum uninstall
I launched Shutter and KeepNote to jot down details for article. I brought up Xfce's dialog boxes and started to take screenshots when the windows froze. I tried to move the window around and switch to KeepNote, but the window just created ghosts of itself. I tried to access the Terminal but to no avail. After a few minutes of trying to kill applications, I did the unthinkable in Linux - I used the power off button.
This had never happened to Gnome 3 on the Fedora 15 so I was sure it wasn't Fedora. It wasn't any display issues either since the EEEPC 1000H had survived through installs of openSUSE 12.1 KDE and Mandriva 2011.2 ROSA. I booted Xfce one more time but again, it crashed. For all I know, Shutter, my screen-capture application didn't work well with Xfce. It happened two more times. It was time to get rid of Xfce, vowing never to try the environment again.
I used the Terminal to remove Xfce using the command yum groupuninstall xfce. I trusted YUM to remove the 37 packages properly. I knew Xfce shared libraries with Gnome. What I didn't know was that Yum would prompt the removal of Gnome packages during the uninstallation of Xfce. I agreed to have them removed, thinking that they were Gnome packages that were added during the installation of Xfce. This was my second mistake.
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| YUM did its job perfectly and removed all the Xfce packages. |
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| Honestly, I didn't miss Xfce. |
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