On 16-09-2013 22:50, Richard Owlett wrote:
In my case, i have a desktop quite powerful for my need, i run KDE just because of the eyecandy, but got used to work with a tiling window manager: i3-wm. So for been more productive in some corner cases, in my X session i run a instance of Xephyr with i3 as window manager (i tested for E17 and it worked also).Dan Ritter wrote:On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:57:54PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:2. Given that internet is effectively non-existent and internal/external disk space is effectively unlimited, how can I make as many as possible of the DE &/or WM on the distribution DVD simply available to experiment with?apt-get install [metapackage name] for each of them. There's no restriction to only having one installed at a time, you know.I hoped/suspected apt-get was the answer. But that why I phrased it in an open ended manner. An implied questions include: how do I switch between them while comparing?
I have a small script: #!/bin/sh # script to start a new server with i3 DISPLAY=:0 Xephyr :1 -ac -br -reset -terminate -screen 1280x1024 2> /dev/null & sleep 2 DISPLAY=:1 i3 & but you can use just the command line's commands... Hope it helps...
You have a range of options. You could start multiple X servers, and run one on each, simultaneously. You could switch between them via the per-login option in a display manager (xdm, gdm, lightdm...) You could edit your .xinitrc file to start the system that you want, and then run startx from your machine's virtual console.will thy potentially interfere with each other?Only in the sense that only one can have control of your X session at a time. Otherwise, they're very good about ignoring config files that belong to other packages.Thank you.
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