Desktop change consequences

[Andrew Huys]

Back when I ran Unity beside XFCE, everything seemed to be fully 
compatible, probably because of the gnome ancestry.  havn't tried in 
about a year, so I'm not sure about now, but can't imagine that too much 
has changed...

On 04/08/2013 02:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:45:40 +0200, Pete Wright <pnwright at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> If this question is too “newbie” or worse, heretical, please forgive and
>> then ignore me.
>
> It isn't, you should asked what ever you want, sure, you also should 
> search the web yourself a little bit, but since that isn't easy for a 
> newbie, you better asked a question to much, than a question to less.
>
> I don't use Unity, so I don't have knowledge about it. Usually, if a 
> window is focused, the shortcut should work for that Window. This 
> doesn't work for every shortcut, but every desktop environment, resp. 
> windows manager should provide the option to change shortcuts by the 
> user.
>
> I suspect that if you install Unity, everything will become as it was, 
> but there might be a menu to change or disable shortcuts.
>
> OTOH in a hurry I couldn't find how to disable the mouse wheel button 
> for Xfce4, they can hide options very good, if they want ;).
>
> As somebody else already mentioned, you can install Unity beside 
> Xfce4. Theoretically this should work for all DEs, but sometimes it 
> does cause issues, when using on Desktop environment A the browser 
> from environment B the session could become a mix of both desktop 
> environments, or desktop environment X has got 2 trash cans on the 
> Desktop, one that is used and another, from environment Z.
>

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