Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

On 28/09/2024 22:04, George at Clug wrote: To get the earlier installations to discover the later installed installations, I ran grub-mkconfig I have never tried it, but my impression is that in the case of UEFI boot, rEFInd may detect installed OSes dynamically without explicit configurati

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

Hi, Thanks for your report! Le 29/09/2024, George at Clug a écrit: > # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > https://averagelinuxuser.com/dual-boot-arch-linux-with-linux/ Alternatively, you could have used a simple 'update-grub' because: $ cat $(which update-grub) #!/bin/sh set -e exec grub-

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

Hi, I decided I should again test setting up 'multi boot linux installations' on a single PC with multiple disk drives, to verify my previous failures at doing this. The result of this test? It seems that Grub does a great job of booting from multiple linux installations. For testing I creat

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

On 27/09/2024 18:53, George at Clug wrote: 3) I am not confident that constant switching between display manager, e.g. LightDM, SLiM, XDM, GDM, SDDM, KDM, Ly will not cause issues. Besides the frustration of changing the configuration each time you want to jump into another DE. Is it really n

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

On Friday, 27-09-2024 at 12:40 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 26 Sep 2024 at 09:52:18 (+0100), Joe wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:19:26 +1000 George at Clug wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 25-09-2024 at 12:37 Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > On 25/09/2024 04:52, George at Clug wrote: > > > > > An other

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

On Thu 26 Sep 2024 at 09:52:18 (+0100), Joe wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:19:26 +1000 George at Clug wrote: > > On Wednesday, 25-09-2024 at 12:37 Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 25/09/2024 04:52, George at Clug wrote: > > > > An other example would be to boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and > > > > D

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:19:26 +1000 George at Clug wrote: > My experiences - George. > > On Wednesday, 25-09-2024 at 12:37 Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 25/09/2024 04:52, George at Clug wrote: > > > An other example would be to boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and > > > Debian Mate, Debian XFCE. >

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

On 26/09/2024 04:19, George at Clug wrote: Grub did not find other existing Linux distributions. Found Windows, but not other linux distributions. The following has been discussed on debian-user:

boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

My experiences - George. On Wednesday, 25-09-2024 at 12:37 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 25/09/2024 04:52, George at Clug wrote: > > An other example would be to boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Debian > > Mate, Debian XFCE. > > What issues you have faced trying to install multiple desktop > enviro

boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE (was: Re: Finding/creating Debian documentation for an unserved audience)

On 25/09/2024 04:52, George at Clug wrote: An other example would be to boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Debian Mate, Debian XFCE. What issues you have faced trying to install multiple desktop environment to the same Debian installation? Display managers allow to select session type before