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

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?