Move to XFCE from Gnome

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I use Gnome edition of Manjaro more than two years, after gnome 49 is come and it drop x11 and my Nvidia GPU does not working on gnome 49, my desktop PC is slow and has lags
I want move to latest xfce
Please guide me to do this
I want all application installed before working and I want do not lost data

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It’s actually quite easy:

  1. Make sure your data is all safe and backed up.
  2. Download the latest ISO for Xfce.
  3. Burn it to a flash drive.
  4. Boot from that flash drive into the live environment.
  5. Install the Xfce version. This can wipe your entire disk and all it’s data, which is why having it safe and backed up before starting is important!
  6. Reinstall all software you previously had installed.
  7. Restore backups on/to newly installed system.

Hope it helps!

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I want use pacman install xfce and switch to XFCE from Gnome, I do not want fresh install

Is this safe?

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It is risky.

In theory, from tty, you can uninstall one DE and all related packages and services and install the other. If you forget some service or component you will have a problem.
And then there is the problem with all the user configs, which are totally incompatible. Again in theory, cleaning .config and .cache should solve it but…

I would do a clean reinstall if i were you. It is not work the risk.

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I have to agree, it’s not worth the risk… especially considering X11, and so much more would need to be installed as well as XFCE.

Then there is general configuration compatibility – one might spend the next six months trying to solve resulting problems.

Better to save personal data somewhere (ext4 formatted USB, for example) so it can be restored later – or possibly the entire /home heirarchy – even then there will be configuration issues later.

If you have another disk (HDD/SDD) it would certainly be safer to install XFCE to that, and copy important data back later. It might be cleaner to simply install fresh applications as they are needed.

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In this instance - yes it is safe - xfce is gtk based - you may need to adjust some settings to your liking - but it should be minimal.

I will advise to replace gdm with lightdm.

sudo pacman -Syu xfce4 xfce4-goodies lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter

Be sure to check the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf to ensure a greeter has been set

[Seat:*]
...
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
...

Then enable lightdm to replace gdm

sudo systemctl enable --force lightdm

restart your system

(you will have a lot of duplicated application, many will likely work as you are used to, maintain as you see fit)

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