Re: [trinity-users] switching from gnome to tde on stretch, what do I edit?

Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-03 08:48 (UTC-0400):

I think the installers only other choice is xfce

You think wrong. Neither Gnome nor XFCE ever gets installed on any Debian here. Whether Debian or any Debian derivative on which I want TDE, I include the following on the installation kernel's cmdline:

tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false

This produces a minimal installation, from which I add TDE to sources.list, so that the only desktop becomes TDE after following the TDE Wiki instructions.

Typically before I add TDE I install the very light weight IceWM, to ensure I have a working X, and something to fall back to, if TDE or its repos seem to be broken.