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From: DFS <nospam@dfs.com>
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Subject: Re: I'm curious about DFS's experiment with DE's
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:50:10 -0400
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On 3/26/2024 7:09 AM, vallor wrote:

> I'm curious about how DFS is doing with his installation of
> numerous desktop environments.
> 
> Will his package manager correctly track dependencies so
> it doesn't remove something too early?
> 
> Do they all work?
> 
> And...is this all using WSL?  How do DE's work with WSL?
> 
> I use xfce, which is fairly lightweight, but allows plenty
> of customization.
> 
> For example, I set icon decorations for terminal windows using
> emojis from the command prompt.  I set different emojis for
> different servers.  "Home" is a penguin, as seen in this example:
> 
> https://imgur.com/a/m7lJ7bF


I did that experiment long ago, starting from Manjaro/xfce on bare metal 
(which I currently don't have, so you're in a better position than me 
right now to do this experiment.)

What login manager are you running?  SLIM has been deprecated, but it 
was the default for Manjaro back then.  Upon startup, it read the 
available DE's from /usr/share/xsessions.

If you install fluxbox with your package manager, does it add an entry 
to /usr/share/xsessions?  If you logout, does your login manager now 
show options for xfce and fluxbox?