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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: I'm curious about DFS's experiment with DE's
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:51:33 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:50:37 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
<utuucv$1u636$1@dont-email.me>:

> On 3/26/2024 11:15 AM, vallor wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:50:10 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
>> <utujqh$1rf3k$1@dont-email.me>:
>> 
>>> 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?
>> 
>> lightdm.
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> I think they all do that.  Lightdm does.
>> 
>>>
>>> If you install fluxbox with your package manager, does it add an entry
>>> to /usr/share/xsessions?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>> If you logout, does your login manager now
>>> show options for xfce and fluxbox?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> BTW, my commentary was on your post about repeating
>> the experiment, and your trolling cola mercilessly if
>> it failed.  I'm paraphrasing -- you are in a better
>> position to pull up the post in question.  But I don't
>> remember any clause about if you would let us know if
>> you _succeeded_... ;)
> 
> heh!  I'm fair (enough anyway), and of course I'll give credit if I'm 
> able to install all those different desktops, have them run cleanly, 
> then uninstall all but one and suffer no serious consequences.
> 
> Do I sense you're apprehensive about trying that experiment yourself?

No, you sense that I'm not about to be goaded into performing
your experiment for you.

I did say, though, that I might do it anyway.  But I asked
a question, which you perhaps overlooked: "don't you think DE's
have learned to stay out of each other's way after all these years?"

-- 
-v