On Wed, 31 Jul 2024, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote: > this is linux, right? so I could have one be kde, one gnome and maybe a > third xfce? might try playing with it someday, or good if I want to > transition gradually to a different UI, but unless > one of them could be like the win 3.1 UI, not being unable to join them > together and drag individual app windows from one physical screen to another > probably makes better to all be the same UI with joined screens.
With Linux you can definitely have different window managers on different X11 instances running on different screens within the same machine. I did this before (running two instances of Gnome on :0 and :1 respectively, and olvwm on :2) and it's only down to the individual window managers whether they are happy about it or not. You can have some remote screens such as via XDMCP as well, each using its own window manager. Maciej
