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smnpl

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From: Germany

Registered: 2015-01-07

Posts: 54

Cinnamon parallel to Xfce

Hi Folks,

as I've just got some spare time, I'm thinking of trying Cinnamon on arch. However before I'm just going to install it, I thought it might be worth to clarify if it will work well besides mit current Xfce environment. Meaning, if there are library conflicts or such ...? I'm using light dm with gtk3 greeter, if that is of matter.
Hope you can give suggestions on that topic!

Best regards
Simon

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Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 9,003

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Re: Cinnamon parallel to Xfce

I've had both XFCE and Cinnamon (and Plasma 5 and GNOME 3.14 and LXQt and MATE and LXDE) running under GDM without any conflicts.

The menus were pretty long though...

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smnpl

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From: Germany

Registered: 2015-01-07

Posts: 54

Re: Cinnamon parallel to Xfce

Thx for your response!
Since I've got a backup of my system from last week and your positive answer I just tried. I can confirm for now, there don't seem to be issues after the install. In total I wonder how lightweight the installation actually was. Lets see what cinnamon has to offer ^^

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Joel

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From: Tijuana, BC, México

Registered: 2011-12-21

Posts: 129

Re: Cinnamon parallel to Xfce

I tried once both, and It seems that when loging in xfce, it keeps some cinnamon apps in the session.

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