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#1 2023-06-11 09:10:24
- avidseeker
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Prevent interference of DEs with each other
How do you manage installing multiple Desktop Environments in the same system?
I installed xfce and kde, and whenever I enter switch from a session to another I get all the startup programs of the other session. Plasma gets its system tray in xfce and vice-verse.
What's worse is launching a window manager like DWM. Keymappers like sxhkd show "Keymap already grabbed by another program".
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#2 2023-06-11 10:09:34
- dogknowsnx
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Re: Prevent interference of DEs with each other
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#3 2023-06-11 14:12:01
- Trilby
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Re: Prevent interference of DEs with each other
What's worse is launching a window manager like DWM. Keymappers like sxhkd show "Keymap already grabbed by another program".
That really shouldn't happen. Clearly one of your DEs is not actually shutting down properly / fully.
Trays / starup stuff could crossover if the diffent DEs rely on the same file / data storage for startup apps (e.g., one of the xdg autostart dirs for example) - but you can likely specify a DE/WM use a different path for these. Or in the worst case, you could set different XDG_* environment variables for each session (certainly no need for different user accounts).
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