Hello,
I was wondering if their is a way to have multiple desktop environment on a system without one messing with other. Anytime you have multiple desktop environment on a system they will start writing each others configuration files messing up with themes. Not to mention populated application menus.
Would it be possible to create different users for different desktop environment? Or something like that.
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:29:45PM +0630, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
I was wondering if their is a way to have multiple desktop environment on a system without one messing with other. Anytime you have multiple desktop environment on a system they will start writing each others configuration files messing up with themes. Not to mention populated application menus.
I don't think that these problems are generally the case. Are you saying that you don't want to see some applications that are installed on the system on the menu of some desktop environments because they're written for a certain toolkit? (That is, no Gnome-targetted apps available in KDE?) Why limit yourself like that?
Would it be possible to create different users for different desktop environment? Or something like that.
Sure. You could do that.
On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 23:29 +0630, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if their is a way to have multiple desktop environment on a system without one messing with other. Anytime you have multiple desktop environment on a system they will start writing each others configuration files messing up with themes. Not to mention populated application menus.
Would it be possible to create different users for different desktop environment? Or something like that.
Of course. I do it all the time. I also occasionally log into a different environment than my default one just to see what it looks like. DEs don't generally step on each other's toes even though in theory they can.
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On Thursday, June 05, 2014 03:25:22 PM Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:29:45PM +0630, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
I was wondering if their is a way to have multiple desktop environment on a system without one messing with other. Anytime you have multiple desktop environment on a system they will start writing each others configuration files messing up with themes. Not to mention populated application menus.
I don't think that these problems are generally the case. Are you saying that you don't want to see some applications that are installed on the system on the menu of some desktop environments because they're written for a certain toolkit? (That is, no Gnome-targetted apps available in KDE?) Why limit yourself like that?
Would it be possible to create different users for different desktop environment? Or something like that.
Sure. You could do that.
Previously whenever I have tried to run multiple desktop environment themes would get messed up like Chrome may pickup one theme and not the other and things like that.
Let me give it another go and see if it works fine.