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If you want to quickly customize your MX installation and are not a big fan of writing Linux scripts you can create simple cut & paste 'snippets" like the three that follow:
1. sudo apt-get purge application1 application2 application999
2. sudo apt autoremove
3. sudo apt-get install applicationA applicationB applicationZZ
application# represents any application-name (the same goes for those with digits). For the sake of argument, let's say
application1 = featherpad
application2 = xfce4-notes-plugin
applicationA = mousepad
applicationB = chromium
In this simple example then we get item 1 as:
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sudo apt-get purge featherpad xfce4-notes-plugin
For Item 2 we have the following:
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sudo apt autoremove
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sudo apt-get install mousepad chromium
Copy & paste your commands one at a time into your terminal, wait for each to complete. When they are complete; you are done. Change the application(s) to those you want added or removed. The autoremove step simply cleans up unused leftovers.
N.B.: If you don't know the application names of the preinstalled applications just go to your menu and Right click on the application you want to delete. Generally the first word in the command line is the application name.
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For those who'd like to make this all into a script so you only need run a single command, here we go.
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Open an editor, I generally use mousepad. Once you have your editor open add the following (all from our example above).
#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get purge featherpad xfce4-notes-plugin
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt-get install mousepad chromium
Save this file as a file you will remember like "application-mods"
Once you have saved the file, make it executable. You can do this from terminal of the file manager. To use terminal enter the following command in the directory where you placed the file "application-mods"
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chmod +x application-mods
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./application-mods
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Enjoy!