How to login to terminal and remove LXDE

[azrin1972]

Hi,

My usage does not need the LXDE and I want to remove it completely. Under normal Ubuntu I can use grub. How to do this with this distro?

Thank you

[avafinger]

Removing LXDE sometimes removes only portions of the auxiliary packages. For example, it removes LXDE but not abiword, You should remove the additional packages before LXDE.

Check which packages will be removed first:
sudo apt-get --simulate --purge remove lxde

If this does remove all auxiliary packages then:

sudo apt-get --purge remove lxde
and
sudo apt-get autoremove -y
sudo apt-get check
sudo apt-get autoclean

[azrin1972]

I've run additional command
sudo apt-get purge libx11.* libqt.*

after I reboot, it goes into terminal but I lost my cursor. how do I get the cursor back? I read somewhere that I need to do something with the kernel but I do not know how. I can do it in /etc/bash.bashrc but upon opening nano - it disappears again.

[avafinger]

To enable the soft cursor you can try this:

• This instructions are from guido

Append the following to your /etc/rc.local (other path as mine /home/guido/):
#enable console-cursor
cd /home/guido
rm /home/guido/terminfo.txt 2>/dev/null
infocmp >> /home/guido/terminfo.txt
sed -i.bak -e 's/?0c/?112c/g' -e 's/?8c/?48;0;64c/g' /home/guido/terminfo.txt
tic /home/guido/terminfo.txt
#tput cnorm

and as the last line of ~/.bashrc:
tput cnorm