On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:41:20 +0100 (BST) "Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 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. I have mixed experiences with this with applications or environments interfering with each other. E.g. it'd be impossible to launch the same application in two sessions. It would be nice if applications were a bit more supportive of such scenarios and the virtual terminal thing a bit more flexible. I'd like to be able to remote into a machine and choose to either start a new graphical session (like SSH) or attach to an existing one (like what 'tmux a' does). It's probably possible to hack something together with a VNC X server and then also connecting to it locally, but solutions like that come with compromises like performance. Sijmen
