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Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released
Date	2026-02-12 21:07 +0000
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:45:45 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> 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. :-)

That's when you either use the live feature or fire up a VM.

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Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2026-02-10 03:37 +0000
  Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-10 04:35 +0000
    Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-10 11:41 +0100
      Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-10 12:55 +0000
        Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-10 14:09 +0100
          Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-10 13:36 +0000
            Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-10 14:51 +0100
              Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-02-10 15:21 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-10 19:53 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-02-12 08:43 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-10 22:28 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-11 10:28 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-11 12:06 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-11 12:15 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-11 13:57 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-11 22:53 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-12 00:12 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-12 00:03 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-12 11:43 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-12 12:48 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-12 23:55 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-02-12 19:40 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-02-12 12:17 -0800
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-12 23:56 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-02-12 08:45 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-12 11:45 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-12 21:07 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-12 22:27 +0100
          Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-02-10 15:20 +0100
            Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-10 20:32 +0000
          Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-10 20:27 +0000
          Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-10 22:51 -0500
            Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-11 11:50 +0100
              Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-11 21:05 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-11 23:45 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-12 04:15 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-12 11:51 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-02-11 18:00 -0800
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-12 12:45 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-12 21:12 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-02-13 21:54 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-13 22:59 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-14 00:48 +0000
        Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-10 20:26 +0000
          Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-10 23:00 +0100
            Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-11 00:40 +0000
      Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-10 20:01 +0000
  Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-10 05:32 +0000
    Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-10 02:31 -0500
      Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2026-02-10 03:20 -0500
        Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-10 19:38 +0000
    Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-10 19:34 +0000
      Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-11 11:55 +0100
        Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-11 20:50 +0000
          Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-11 23:52 +0100
            Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-12 03:38 +0000
              Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-12 11:55 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-12 20:39 +0000
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-12 22:30 +0100
                Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-13 01:15 +0000

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