how to start particular desktop with startx

[Harry Putnam]

Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> writes:

[...] snipped good comments, and I see you've understood what I'm after.

> I've got two pages for you that might help:
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/243195/what-desktop-environment-does-startx-run-and-how-can-i-change-it

Excellent, yes.  I'd seen a briefer form of that article somewhere but
it had no details as are found there.

> https://tldp.org/HOWTO/XWindow-User-HOWTO/runningx.html

Oh man, this is the stuff here.  Repleat with detail and example
scripts.

Thank you sir for the excellent help... very good stuff.