Re: I'm curious about DFS's experiment with DE's

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:50:37 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
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On 3/26/2024 11:15 AM, vallor wrote:

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:50:10 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
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On 3/26/2024 7:09 AM, vallor wrote:
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I'm curious about how DFS is doing with his installation of
numerous desktop environments.
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Will his package manager correctly track dependencies so
it doesn't remove something too early?
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Do they all work?
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And...is this all using WSL?  How do DE's work with WSL?
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I use xfce, which is fairly lightweight, but allows plenty
of customization.
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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:
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https://imgur.com/a/m7lJ7bF

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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.)
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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.
 

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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?"

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-v