From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   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  wrote:   
   >>> On 10/02/2026 21:28, Carlos E. R. wrote:   
   >>>> On 2026-02-10 15:21, Marc Haber wrote:   
   >>>>> "Carlos E. R."  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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