Subject: Re: Is it safe to experiment with multiple X systems?
To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/04/2001 18:38:03
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> Greetings again. I have a 1.5 system on which I have installed
> windowmaker. I was told it was faster than GNOME or KDE, and it seems
> to work fine for me. However, I want to check out the other systems
> and see what all the hype is about.
>
> Is it safe to install GNOME and KDE and windowmaker from pkgsrc on
> the same system, or are there known issues of them stepping on each
> other?

	If any window managers conflict, pkgsrc should stop them from
	installing. To my knowledge the only two are icewm and
	icewm-gnome. I've had everything else installed on a single box


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