Fedora 15 problems after attempted changed to xfce

[Onerous]

Help

Have tried to compare the xfce desktop to the gnome3 desktop but managed to lose both.

I have logged in via ctrl alt F2 but can't figure out how to repair the damage that I did to lose the desktop environment.

Please help, thanks.

[sea]

From memory, just after f15 was released, i had installed ALL available DE's on it.
As you can imagine the system went unstable due to diffrent dependencies and conflicts of them to each other.
Before doing anything further, i'd suggest you do backup the most important data.

Then, while beeing loged in shell as root, remove the dirs /home/Onerous/.config and /home/Onerous/.local
Further some of the ~/.X... files too as they store the X11 settings / values which might cause errors for the one or the other.

Deinstalling a DE would be another option, and is quite easy to be accomplished..
Just type either one of these lines as root:

yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop Environment"
yum groupremove Xfce

These options are pretty radical, you might want to try other inputs you hopefully get here.

Hope this helps

[Doug G]

fwiw, I have a fedora 15 laptop with Gnome 3, KDE 4 and Xfce installed and don't have any problems switching between the different DE's (well, a couple minor inconsistencies like gnome-terminal doesn't work right in KDE). Xfce is my primary desktop.

[sea]

fwiw... means what please?
Its not that one must have problems with diffrent DE's on the same system, but it increased the chances to.

[Doug G]

fwiw... means what please?

For What It's Worth ..

[Onerous]

Its taken me ages to log back on.

X configure seem to make it work once again. Its still not perfect but it is still working.