Is it safe to uninstall these Gnome packages from Cinnamon?

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On my laptop there is a cascade of “Required By” as follow:

  • Nautilus
  • xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
  • gnome-session
  • gnome-shell
  • gnome-control-center-x11-scaling
    Interestingly none of those 5 apps are installed on my desktop pc that uses the same edition/version of Manjaro (exactly the same down to the same theme/font/background etc…)

I googled the x11-scaling and I came across a post on this forum with issues about it not working - but it was from 2022 - so probably fixed!
Anyway, if I understand correctly, the purpose of x11-scaling is to increase/decrease the display by a fractional % (75%, 100%, 125%, etc…)
So I checked and compared the ‘Display’ settings in both the laptop and the desktop. They are as follow

On the Desktop (remember it does NOT have x11-scaling)
In the settings tab ‘Enable fractional scaling controls (experimental)’ is set to Off
In the layout tab ‘User interface scaling’ has 100% or 200% options and is set to 100%
Enabling ‘Fractional scaling’ adds more options in 25% increments

On the Laptop
In the settings tab ‘Enable fractional scaling controls (experimental)’ is set to Off
In the layout tab ‘User interface scaling’ only 100% options is available
Enabling ‘Fractional scaling’ does Nothing! still only 100%

I actually don’t have a need for fractional scaling and looks like x11-scaling is not working! so it should be safe to uninstall all 5 apps (starting from x11-scaling back up to Nautilus)?

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Hi @chameau -

As I know nothing about Cinnamon, and your original support request has been solved, I have moved your post asking if it would be safe to remove some Gnome packages to this new topic.

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none of these are present in my Cinnamon installation - they belong to Gnome

see above - same here

You must have installed something which had at least one of these packages as a dependency.

I do not know at the moment how to check which package
(likely AUR, but that is only speculation)
that might be/have been.

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Now that we know that none of those packages are required by your Cinnamon system (thank-you @Nachlese ), you can check if any other installed packages rely on them by using the same command that you ran in the other thread:

pamac info package-name

And checking the “Required by:” line of the output.

Or, you could just skip all of that and run the command:

pamac remove nautilus xdg-desktop-portal-gnome gnome-session gnome-shell gnome-control-center-x11-scaling

If any other installed packages require them, pamac will let you know. If nothing relies on them, then they will be uninstalled when you enter your password.

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Thanks but I already used ‘pacman’ to find the “Required by” line

pacman -Q -i package-name

I then repeated the command with the “required by” package-name until the response was ‘None’ that gave me the 5 packages I listed in my first post.
I then used pacman to remove all 5 packages one at a time in reverse order

sudo pacman -Rns package-name

Now Nautilus is gone and all works fine.
I do have another issue with AUR packages, but I create another post for that

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