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Annoyingduck

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Registered: 2016-08-02

Posts: 179

Add Budgie DE Alongside Cinnamon and XFCE: Possible Conflicts?

My laptop currently runs Arch with 2 DE's, Cinnamon and XFCE.  I use lightdm as my display manager and xorg (not wayland).  Cinnamon and XFCE have nearly zero conflicts when switching between desktop environments, only some minor application autostart issues that were easily sorted out. I was playing around with Manjaro Budgie on a test computer and I really like it and think it would be pretty good for a touchscreen laptop due to how it's oriented. Before I go ahead and add a 3rd DE to my Arch system, I'd like to find out if anyone thinks there may be some major conflicts with Budgie running with Cinnamon and XFCE installed.  My understanding is that along with Budgie, I would also need to install a bunch of Gnome packages (which may already be there due to Cinnamon).  I assume there are no issues starting Budgie with Lightdm, but want to be sure it doesn't require GDM.  I like keeping Gnome apps to a minimum.  My main question is about conflicts and if my system will go haywire when switching between Cinnamon, XFCE, and Budgie. Any multiple DE Budgie users that can offer some insight?