Tim Chase wrote: > On May 2, 2016, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > > can I install many desktops at the same time? > > My first interpretation was that you had a lab full of machines and > you wanted to bulk-install across them. In which case, yes, Debian > can be automated to do that. > > However, reading further, I understood that you want multiple desktop > environments (DE) and/or window-managers (WM). You can certainly > install as many as you want, though can usually only run one at a > time. It helps if your login manager is DE/WM aware. I believe the > stock "xdm" is pretty dumb about it, needing an add-on tool that lets > you pick your DE/WM as it starts up. There are others such as "gdm" > or "slim" that let you choose your DE/WM at startup. gdm, xdm etc. don't actually offer much. I just get rid of them and use 'startx' after login to start my default WM or 'startx /usr/bin/somewm' for alternates. I prefer to remap some keys, so that goes into ~/.xinitrc (see below). To be able get correct mapping when I plug in an external keyboard, I also put the remapping stuff in a script'. The arguments to setxkbmap can be found by 'man xkeyboard-config'. cat .xinitrc # start a term, with gnu screen urxvt -fn xft:inconsolata:pixelsize=28 -e screen -R -d & # Use CapsLock as Ctrl, allow Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace to kill X server setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp # Don't beep xset b off # Disable PrintScreen (by mapping it to BackSpace) xmodmap -e 'keysym Print = BackSpace' # Start tiling window manager exec /usr/bin/i3 Regards, -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list