> > I have tried at least 30, yes 30! DE/WM's So the only barriers are >> honestly imaginary. >> > > If I'm sitting there in front of my machine, can't I just kill my DE > (Gnome 2, right now), drop to the console terminal and fire up another one? > Can't I install on the system as many of them as I please? > > When I used Solaris, it would have a login window that allowed me to > choose my window manager. I could use Open Windows, KDE, Gnome, or a > couple of others that I had installed. Does Linux do that, too? It made > it easy in a multi-user environment for different users to choose different > desktop environments. > > I'm using Ubuntu. It booted into Gnome 2, so I used Gnome 2, which was > OK. Now that they have Unity, I'm thinking about testing a few others to > see how I like them. What's the easiest way to do that? > it's trivial to apt-get install as many as you like, and gdm or kdm or lxdm make it easy to logout of one and try another. of those kdm is most clever about remembering which user used which environment last. the hardest part is knowing what packages to install. perhaps someone somewhere has a list. if you have enough ram and enough wild abandon to learn how, you can run more than one at once. if you learn how to invoke them from a getty login, then yes, you'll have a console shell underneath it all. when i do that tho, i don't get sound. if anyone has the solution to that i'd love to see that. a small list of some small DE/WMs: twm, ROX Desktop, Joe's Window Manager (JWM), fvwm, Awesome, LXDE(lubuntu), GNUstep, WindowMaker, LWM when i ran "tasksel --list-tasks" under maverick i got this list of meta-packages (tho not as nicely sorted): u manual Manual package selection u ubuntu-netbook Ubuntu Netbook u netbook-live Ubuntu Netbook live environment u kubuntu-netbook Kubuntu netbook u kubuntu-netbook-live Kubuntu Netbook Remix live CD u kubuntu-mobile Kubuntu mobile u kubuntu-mobile-live Kubuntu Mobile Remix live CD u ubuntu-live Ubuntu live CD u xubuntu-live Xubuntu live CD u kubuntu-live Kubuntu live CD u ubuntu-dvd-live Ubuntu live DVD u kubuntu-dvd-live Kubuntu live DVD u edubuntu-dvd-live Edubuntu live DVD u ubuntu-desktop Ubuntu desktop u xubuntu-desktop Xubuntu desktop u kubuntu-desktop Kubuntu desktop u edubuntu-desktop-gnome Edubuntu desktop u edubuntu-desktop-kde Edubuntu KDE desktop u mythbuntu-desktop Mythbuntu additional roles u mythbuntu-frontend Mythbuntu frontend u mythbuntu-backend-master Mythbuntu master backend u mythbuntu-backend-slave Mythbuntu slave backend u ubuntustudio-font-meta Large selection of font packages u ubuntustudio-graphics 2D/3D creation and editing suite u ubuntustudio-audio Audio creation and editing suite u ubuntustudio-audio-plugins LADSPA and DSSI audio plugins u ubuntustudio-video Video creation and editing suite u edubuntu-server Edubuntu server i openssh-server OpenSSH server u postgresql-server PostgreSQL database u dns-server DNS server u lamp-server LAMP server u mail-server Mail server u print-server Print server u samba-server Samba file server u tomcat-server Tomcat Java server u virt-host Virtual Machine host u uec Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (instance) u eucalyptus-simple-cluster Cloud computing: all-in-one cluster u eucalyptus-cloud Cloud computing: top-level cloud controller u eucalyptus-node Cloud computing: node controller u eucalyptus-cluster Cloud computing: cluster controller u eucalyptus-storage Cloud computing: storage controller u eucalyptus-walrus Cloud computing: Walrus storage service -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111124/21bb8c4f/attachment-0001.html>