I guess gnome is there default. However, they have instructions to allow
the user to build a custom kali for themselves using live-build.
http://docs.kali.org/development/live-build-a-custom-kali-iso

Since Kali 2.0, we now support built in configurations for various desktop
environments, including KDE, Gnome, E17, I3WM, LXDE, MATE and XFCE.

http://git.kali.org/gitweb/?p=live-build-config.git;a=tree


On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:26 PM, fsmithred <fsmithred@???> wrote:

> On 07/12/2016 07:07 PM, Simon Walter wrote:
> >
> > Though I agree that the point and "grunt" style is a bit useless. Which
> is
> > why I wondered why Kali had a full blown GNOME. What about XFCE or
> > openbox? Something minimal please.
> > _______________________________________________
>
> I took a look at it, too, and I was surprised it was such a resource hog.
> I couldn't even stand to use it, running the iso in virtualbox, so I
> installed it, booted to single-user mode, changed sources to devuan ascii,
> installed sysvinit-core, removed gdm3, rebooted, apt-get update and
> apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade, removed systemd and as much gnome
> stuff as I could, and then added xfce4.
>
> It works. I have no idea what's broken, but the basic process works.
> Kaliascii.
>
> -fsr
>
>
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