No issues, they have no problem existing in parallel, I've seem machines with xfce, gnome, kde, fvwm and a few others in parallel. I personally switch window managers occasionally just for the fun of the change and have several existing in parallel.
The only thing that may take some work is making the choice of which one to load easy enough (I setup things in .Xsession but I think gdm can do it from the startup menu). The only thing is that xfwm4 doesn't have a replace option so it's a bit more difficult to change window managers without restarting unless your session manager has a menu option (fusion-icon allows me to change betwin compiz and xfwm4 but if I start compiz --replace I have a problem going back without restart) I believe that xfce can also use the gnome backend for settings and you can mix and match the panel and window manager. The xfce panel can even use gnome applets (with a plugin to do it) On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:49:19 +0100 Andrew Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this easy to do? Is it as simple as installing an xfce meta package > and then selecting xfce as the desktop when logging in? I've never > tried using multiple desktop environments before and wonder if there any > caveats I need to be aware of. > > --andrew > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]