Switching from Gnome to Fluxbox or Enlightenment in Gentoo

[spencerf]

My question is this: If I want to switch from Gnome to something like Fluxbox or enlightenment in Gentoo what should I do. Do I have to unmerge the gnome environment. Change use flags (to what yet I don't exactly know) then emerge fluxbox. Then do the emerge update ( i forgot what the exact command is but something like deep clean, update ....etc...) If this sounds basically right let me know or completely wrong or anyother advice.

I really want a lighter desktop environment for my laptop especially and higher configurability for my desktop.

Thanks in advance!

[genesus]

i recently did that with enlightenment and am very much pleased. just changed my use flags to refer to -gnome -gtk -kde -qt among others, and rest went very smooth.

[spencerf]

Ok. Thanks for the reply.

[jaboua]

You can have gnome and enlightenment installed at the same time, just type this in a terminal as a normal user after emerging enlightenment:

echo exec enlightenment > ~/.xinitrc

Or replace "enlightenment" with "enlightenment17" if you use enligtehment dr17.