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New distro-switch Desktop Env.without logging out

  • 19-05-2012 9:12pm
    #1
    human 19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭


    http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/hybryde-linux-lets-you-switch-desktop-environment-on-the-fly/


    Newly released Ubuntu based distribution Hybryde allows you to switch between desktop environments without even logging out, and coming with nine different desktop environments by default. These include KDE, GNOME 3, GNOME Classic, Unity, Elightenment 17, LXDE, XFCE, Openbox, and FVWM. The system smartly and fluidly transfers over open windows and applications to the new Desktop.

    The switching between desktops is achieved via a customisable Hy-menu which also allows launching applications and configuring the system. The project's website is in French and by default the distribution only supports the French language, but extra language packs can be installed from standard Ubuntu 12.04 repositories.


    I hope this idea catches on with other distros. the previous times I tried to download new DEs from the repos, it broke the system





    hymenu.png


Comments

  • #2
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Nifty but I've really seldomly felt any need to switch DEs without logging out.

    On gentoo installing multiple desktop environments is no big deal.

    I tend to setup one desktop environment just the way I like it and stick with it until something forces a change.


  • #3
    human 19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭human 19


    humbert wrote: »
    Nifty but I've really seldomly felt any need to switch DEs without logging out.

    On gentoo installing multiple desktop environments is no big deal.
    .

    It would be mainlyto check out others I rarely bother with so Ican give them all some time without having a plethora of distors on the disk.

    Easy with Gentoo eh,....I must try it on my Sabayon


  • #4
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,048 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    I often ran two different DEs on my PCLinuxOS install ... start with KDE and add others as I wish to try them ..... using meta packages in the repository.

    It does not require a log out .... but I have not used it much in the last couple of years ... multiple DE sessions can be active at the same time and switching between them is as simple as a keyboard shortcut.


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