Feature changed by: vazha vandan (vazhavandan) Feature #314853, revision 4 Title: Remove xterm and icewm from default installation openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jared Meidal (kahu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: xterm and icewm are great alternatives, but seem redundant when always bundled with default installations of Gnome or KDE's terminal (gnome- terminal, konsole). Also, having the icewm session is a great fallback and useful for emergency access but really necessary by default? I have found that if I remove xterm is removed the bundle with icewm, but also xorg-X11 and other packages. When this happens GDM will not launch after a reboot without CLI commands. This does not feel intuitive for a smooth default system, or helpful for a user who is wanting to clean up their packages or menu items they do not use. Discussion: #1: Michael Catanzaro (golbats_everywhere) (2013-02-17 23:03:49) At least xterm should definitely not be installed by default. + #2: vazha vandan (vazhavandan) (2013-02-24 15:47:35) + you mentioned that "icewm session is a great fallback". Why would you + remove a fallback GUI from a default installation? On other hand the + weird dependency conditions might be removed All these packages occupy + only a few of megabytes of HDD space. Just ignore those packages. + xterm Size: 2.1 MiB icewm Size: 1012.2 KiB icewm-lite Size: 693.7 KiB + If it(xterm) bothers you then you might opt to remove them from + application menu. + I also find that whenever gnome-terminal,tomboy and other gnome + applications don't launch due to some "gconf" daemon issues, xterm does + launch. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314853