Run multiple desktop environment on the same system without messing up each other

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 23:29 +0630, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if their is a way to have multiple desktop environment on a 
> system without one messing with other. Anytime you have multiple desktop 
> environment on a system they will start writing each others configuration 
> files messing up with themes. Not to mention populated application menus.
> 
> Would it be possible to create different users for different desktop 
> environment? Or something like that.

Of course. I do it all the time. I also occasionally log into a
different environment than my default one just to see what it looks
like. DEs don't generally step on each other's toes even though in
theory they can.

poc