Gnome running in Live environment, but not installed


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Hi,

Anyone have any ideas as to how I can achieve the above? (It's not a bug, that's how I need it to be - as Gnome/Kde/xfce is needed for the installer to run, however, I just need the base installed, not a WM).

I've been playing around today, but everything I've tried ends up with it either installed in both the live environment and the installed system, or installed in neither (therefore not allowing the GUI installer to run).

Anyone have any ideas? This has got me pulling my hair out today! :p

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Any luck?

The only way I can see of doing it is to let it install it, and then remove it, however, it seems a bit pointless installing it to remove it.

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Any luck?

The only way I can see of doing it is to let it install it, and then remove it, however, it seems a bit pointless installing it to remove it.

Sorry, Brian...... worked all day yesterday.... I'll search for the solution today and see if we can get through this.....

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Why not show the choice on the log-in screen? Can we make a log-in theme that shows a list with no password as a default.... and a place to choose what WM you want to use?

X should read what it should launch....... .xintrc

Then the chooser overwrites the .xintrc so the user doesn't get the box every time.

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Hmm, that may be an idea actually - have them all installed in the live environment, and remove the ones that aren't going to be used (we may be able to remove the packages from the live cd while it's running using apt-get, so they don't get installed.

I'll have another play :)

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