I have read many conflicting things, like always. Just wondering if there’s a safe way to use several DE’s on one distro without messing up my damn computer lol I’ve tried it several times and it always messed things up. I’m currently brand new to fedora workstation 38 too btw. Thanks alot

  • GnuLinuxDude
    7·
    1 year ago

    I have kind of messed some things up by installing KDE on my Fedora that already has Gnome. This was almost a year ago, now. I would not advise doing this. It is a bigger hassle than it was worth, and I’m just looking forward to a free moment when I can wipe and clean install.

    • Macaroni9538OP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks, but how does one utilize or even explore other DEs within a distro without messing things up? is it just not possible or am I going about it wrong?

      • GnuLinuxDude
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ve seen advice before that creating a new user account and using that to log into multiple DEs is an option.

        • Macaroni9538OP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Tried that but didn’t work. Maybethere’s specific tweaks I have to make first?

          • GnuLinuxDude
            1·
            1 year ago

            That’s a bit vague. What did you try, and what didn’t work?

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m curious what things were “messed up”. I tend to not install more than one on my machine, but at the very least it seems like it should be a typical usecase for multiple users on the same machine to prefer different DEs when they log in. If that breaks somehow, it sounds like someone has a bug.

      • GnuLinuxDude
        4·
        1 year ago

        Some aspects of theming are messed up, like the spacers on my GTK4 drop menus are just flat gray rectangles (they look like placeholder assets). Also launching some programs after a fresh boot now take an inexplicable long time, but only the first time. So for example, if I reboot and launch Firefox or Nautilus it will take an extra 5-6 seconds. Every subsequent time any slow launching program will be fast so long as one of the slow launching programs has been started.

        Finally, not a messed up thing, but there is just needless clutter of stuff in my config files, now, since I’ve got KDE, Gnome, and actually a couple other DE things laying around, now. Mind you, this is all after I’ve already uninstalled KDE.

        Edit: I thought about what I wrote and it occurred to me some of that stuff might be because of bad gtk4 config files. So I deleted them and rebooted. The theming is correct again as far as I can tell, but the slow launch stuff persists.

        • nora@slrpnk.net
          2·
          1 year ago

          You probably have xdg-desktop-portal-kde installed and enabled. Try installing xdg-desktop-gnome and remove the KDE one and see if it makes a difference in launch times.

          Edit: I’d also reboot afterwards

          • GnuLinuxDude
            2·
            1 year ago

            YOU ARE A GENIUS!

            Thank you! xdg-desktop-portal-gnome was already installed but removing xdg-desktop-portal-kde did the trick!