On 09/24/2012 09:07 PM, Dylan wrote:
On 24/09/12 00:58, George Olson wrote:
I want to be able to have the option to boot into LXDE or KDE. Right now I simply have it set up as when the login screen comes up, I can choose. I have not separated the home directories or anything like that.
I have seen some posts that indicate that it is best to separate the home directories
Can you give references? What reasons might you have for wanting to do this - KDE and LXDE shouldn't interfere with each other ...
Dylan
The idea came to be some time back (I can't remember the thread) when someone said that it is better to not have 2 desktops using the same home directories. The reason was that the .configuration files might conflict with each other or something like that. If it is not necessary to have separate home partitions for the desktops and they won't interfere with each other, then I will leave things as they are. So then I read some related ideas, like Dave Howorth in the recent thread "Dual boot OS 12.2 & Ubuntu 10.04" said "Yes but for sanity I would recommend separate home directories and then symlink the next level down together (Pictures, Documents etc). That way all the .configuration files for each system are kept separate but your own files are shared." I realize that is not the same thing I am talking about because he is talking about 2 different OS. So I was thinking if you did that for the 2 different OS, then that would also be the same way to keep the .configuration files for 2 different desktops separate. Which, now that it comes up, brings up another question that I have about that, but maybe I should put it in another thread. I want to upgrade to 12.2 on a separate partition but have all the same data and applications available. I will put this on another thread. -- G.O. Box #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.1 | KDE 4.9.1 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.1 | KDE 4.9.1 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB learning openSUSE and loving it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org