How to uninstall completely XFCE

General system Newbie
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Hi!

I’m a old Antergos user, and on my first try to install Endeavouros it was impossible, I suppose for the Nvidia graphics card. Now I tried again and IT WORKED!! GREAT!!

I was delighted with Antergos, and I was very sad for his end.

At first impression, I feel a great sensation with Endeavouros, seems very stable like Antergos, and after a lot of tries with other distros I’m very happy to come here, I can’t found a good distro for me. I hope my search has come to an end.

I installed LXDE. All is working great, as usual, only takes 170Mb of RAM, is impressive for my limited AMD A6 computer, is very fast, and I have more fps on games than other DE, I love LXDE.
Here the question: now I would like to uninstall completely XFCE, but if I try to uninstall the packages that Archwiki says to install it, I have some dependence errors. What is the way to have LXDE-only system?

Thanks in advance!

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https://endeavouros.com/docs/pacman/how-to-install-desktop-environments-offline-install-users/

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there it is command line versions, otherwise you have pamac-aur

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Yes, I made exactly the step that the link says, but:

jordi@amd ~]$ sudo pacman -Rs xfce4 xfce4-goodies
comprobando dependencias...
error: no se pudo preparar la operación (no se pudieron satisfacer las dependencias)
:: kalu: quitando «xfce4-notifyd» se rompe la dependencia con «notification-daemon»

What is notification-daemon?

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you have pamac-aur or not

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Jseg, here was my workaround for the error you got:

Step 1: Remove kalu with xfce

sudo pacman -Rs xfce4 xfce4-goodies kalu

Step 2: Reinstall kalu

sudo pacman -S  kalu

When you reinstall kalu it will pull in the dependency it requires without the rest of xfce.

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@nohbody
That’s it! Uninstalled perfectly.

Thanks!

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If I have pamac installed, can I simply search ‘xfce’ within it and uninstall all the packages? While in a different DE of course!

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I dislike this forum’s software more than ever. Somebody posts firsts in 2019, marked the solution way back and someone could still post in it, and I could also. What happened to the lock? I wanted to say something in a topic in one of the “EndeavourOS United” forums but discovered the author edited it a few times and this site showed it as a “recent” topic on the front page. It’s confusing. Sorry for going off-topic but I had to let this out of my system. :running_man: