removing unity and gnome and just using fluxbox or openbox?

[Sethun]

Well I've decided I wanted to try out fluxbox or openbox, but If I decide to use it I don't really want unity and gnome just lingering on my system. Is it at all possible to remove it completely and just run off a window manager?

[uzumakifahim]

If you want to do that you need to remove Unity, Gnome desktop environment from your system. To do that, the link below can be helpful for you.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purelubuntu

[grahammechanical]

Make sure that you install your chosen window manager before you remove Unity. Otherwise, you will have a broken system. You are only saving a little space. In my opinion, I think that you will need a Desktop Environment of some sort as Fluxbox is described as a Window Manager.

http://fluxbox.org/

Whereas something like Xfce is described as a Desktop Environment.

http://xubuntu.org/about/

http://xfce.org/

Regards.

[sudodus]

You can try Openbox with Lubuntu, or if you

sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop

then (after reboot) you can select Openbox at the log in screen.

After testing you can remove what you don't need, but it will only occupy disk space, not run, so it makes only a small difference. Keep at least one full desktop environment, because it might convenient to have it some time in the future.

[andrew.46]

In my opinion, I think that you will need a Desktop Environment of some sort as Fluxbox is described as a Window Manager.

You would normally scavenge bits and pieces from the full desktop environments. I am a longterm Fluxbox user and I use Thunar for a file manager, sakura for terminal, leafpad for a gui editor and libreoffice for editing, creating documents, presentations etc. The scavenging is at least half of the fun