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During the installation process of OpenBSD 5.7, I created a user account, user1, belonging to wheel group.

Subsequently I installed a desktop environment after logging into my user account.

This morning I logged into my root account to create a second user account, user2. It also belongs to wheel group.

After logging into my second user account, I discovered that it had the desktop environment identical to the one of the first user account.

I issued the command:

sudo pkg_delete -c gnome

and the error message was:

Package not found

Any suggestions on how to remove the desktop environment from the second user account? For the second user account I just wish to have the bare minimum that OpenBSD offers its users.

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  • You probably did install the DE systemwide, right? To be sure: how did you install the DE? Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 13:37

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Using pkg_delete is almost certainly not what you want to do - that will remove GNOME system-wide.

I assume you have a non-GNOME desktop environment installed in addition to GNOME? If so, GDM (the login manager) should present it as an option on the graphical login screen.

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    @virvegto Exactly, but I was just expanding on that and saying you were going down the wrong route trying to remove the gnome package. Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 14:05
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    @virvegto How did you install GNOME? If with pkg_add, it's installed system-wide and available to all users. You should install gdm as the login manager and use that instead of xdm - it will let you choose desktop before logging in. Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 14:13
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    @virvegto sudo runs the following command as root, so you did install GNOME as root. Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 14:40
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    @virvegto You should install GNOME as root, so you did the correct thing. If you don't and don't install it system-wide, you're going to have all sorts of issues. If gdm is installed, you'll need to configure it to start on boot and disable xdm. That will let you choose a desktop on graphical login. Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 14:48
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    @virvegto With gdm you can also login to a bare GUI and no desktop environment. Just select a different desktop at the login screen - fvwm (the default) should be presented as an option. Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 15:33

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