I need to switch from KDE to xfce without losing my files, any advice?

  • Retiring@lemmy.ml
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    1 年前

    May I ask why you have 5+ DEs installed? And also, isn’t that quite the mess with all the dotfiles?

    • Dr_Willis
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      for testing, and no, no issues at all with the various dot files.

      Cluttered app menus, and an occasional “default open with app” setting changed is about the only issues.

    • qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Is the dotfile overhead of a DE substantially more than any other program? Is there a particular conflict that you’re thinking of?

      For a multiuser system it can be great to have multiple DEs or WMs.

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        I am thinking about .Xresources, for example, and gtk things and other files in .config. I didn’t mean the DE specific dotfiles.