How would I go about running two window managers at once?

Asked By Tony S Boudreau 30 points N/A Posted on - 08/01/2013

Hi techyv,

I am wondering if it's possible to running two window managers simultaneously, as in different sessions?

How would I start them?

Assuming you can run two window managers at the same time, are there any serious problems with memory sharing?

Thanks a lot in advance for this everyone.

Answered By points N/A #174389

Dear Tony, hope you are well. You are easily able to run multiple windows manager simultaneously.

In this tutorial, I am going to tell you this technique on Ubuntu. But other Linux distributions should also work like this.

1. Run the following command for installing “xnest” and “xterm”

sudo apt-get install xnest xterm

2. Then run the following command:

Xnest :1 –ac &

“:1” specifies virtual display number. The more number, the more windows manager.

3. Export the display and start xterm:

Export DISPLAY=:1

xterm &

4. Type this command to start a windows manager. For example, if you wish to start “icewm”,

icewm

Or LXDE:

sudo startlxde

That’s all.

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