I have managed to hose my Xfce laptop so I’m having a friend reinstall it this afternoon.
I am wondering if there is a simple way to put both Cosmic and Xfce display managers on my laptop?
If it’s a difficult job then I’ll stick with Xfce.
Many people feel this way. We want to do more with Xfce than it can do on its own.
Take a look at KDE. I log out of Wayland there and start COSMIC.
The same thing should happen in a tty or terminal. Can’t Xfce do that?
First make sure there are two user accounts. one for xfce an one for cosmic the config files will mess the system up if you just use one.
second, make sure not to use GDM as its wayland only, well will be soon and it wont see x11 sessions. So SDDM or LightDM are safer bets.
third install cosmic from terminal in xfce. This here Arch Linux - cosmic-session 1.0.0.alpha.7-1 (x86_64) you dont have to but i say reboot rather then log out to the sddm or lightdm. Then use the cosmic user and changes it from xfce to cosmic session, on ssdm its normally in the bottom left lightdm its the gear by the password if i remember correctly.
Lightdm remembers the session choice per user while sddm only remembers the last used regardless of the user you log into. so make sure to changed it before going back to xfce. or back to cosmic.
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Many thanks for your reply. I am late getting back to you because I have only just installed KeepassXC on my new setup.
Unfortunately my friend turned up a bit earlier than I expected, and as a result I never saw your reply earlier, thus I only have Xfce on my laptop.
I have bookmarked this page and will refer to it when my laptop is redone with dual DMs.
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