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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:45:45 +0100
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On 2026-02-12 08:45, Marc Haber wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 10/02/2026 21:28, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>> On 2026-02-10 15:21, Marc Haber wrote:
>>>> "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> However, you can simply switch the greeter and that will stop loading
>>>>> libraries from the other desktop, before starting the desktop.
>>>>
>>>> Dotfiles left around by the other desktop will still be there. And
>>>> probably be used.
>>>
>>> Not if the programs that used them are gone, or you don't run them.
>>>
>> An interesting case of similar is when I cloned the home directory of an
>> x86 machine onto a PI.
>>
>> Desktop icons referring to nonexistent programs remained in place
> 
> It is enough to work with xfce, lxde, lxqt and kde interleaved. kde
> might get quite confused by the settings you did in lxde.
> 
> Chaning the desktop in the same account is a common use case when you
> use a development version of your distribtion where your daily desktop
> may be broken von time to time, or when you access your desktop
> remotely over thin links, falling back to a desktop that isn't as
> graphcally challenging.

Or when they tell me about this or that wonderful feature the other 
desktop has, and I temporarily switch to find out about it. :-)

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.