GNOME or KDE?

[Steve Litt]

I can give a 10 to 15 minute presentation showing off my no-frills
Openbox workflow setup.

SteveT


Samuel Stavole-Carter via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 23 Mar 2022
15:40:51 -0700

>Seems to me like this thread could be a good topic for a presentation
>for one of the PLUG sessions if anyone feels inspired. :)
>
>On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 3:16 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <
>plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2022-03-23 08:49, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:  
>> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:45 AM Brian Cluff wrote:  
>> >> Strictly speaking, yes you can install KDE and GNOME at the
>> >> same time, but it can lead to the 2 desktops fighting for
>> >> which desktop gets to handle settings on the other and which
>> >> programs are the default as well as other quirks  
>>
>> This seems like it shouldn't happen.  However, I really can't speak
>> from personal experience here since I have said "Gnope!" to GNOME
>> since it went systemd-required.
>>  
>> > This is very true, I have found if both are installed SDM handles
>> > this better than LightDM and GDM (Personal experience only)  
>>
>> Did you mean sddm?  That is in x11-misc here, not part of KDE or
>> GNOME, though it does depend on Qt and it's the default DM for KDE.
>> It has a set of text config files in /usr/share/xsession/ that
>> determine what gets executed.  I currently have
>> /etc/X11/Sessions/Xsession and /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 as available
>> "what gets run after successful login" options.
>>
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