[ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 06:31:01 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>If the below is accurate what issues could be encountered in terms of
>configuration?

For example an incomplete "NotShowIn" list for desktop files.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep NotShowIn /etc/xdg/autostart/xfce4-power-manager.desktop
NotShowIn=GNOME;KDE;Unity;MATE;

For example the preferences of a file manager are set to manage the
desktop and launching this file manager by a menu based on desktop
files, it gets launched without a no-desktop option. 

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep Exec /usr/share/applications/caja.desktop 
Exec=caja
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ caja --help | grep no-desktop
  --no-desktop                    Do not manage the desktop (ignore the preference set in the preferences dialog).

Those are trivial issues for power users, but a newbie could be
confused.

-- 
pacman -Q linux{,-rt{,-securityink,-pussytoes,-cornflower}}|cut -d\  -f2
4.18.12.arch1-1
4.18.12_rt7-1
4.18.7_rt5-1
4.18.5_rt3-1
4.16.18_rt12-1