Well, I installed Manjaro KDE from scratch. and here Fabby and megavolt gave me great help.
My KDE working much better than before, but still KDE is giving me some delays and response delays (little though)! But such delays … no… this is not Linux. Maybe my machine is too old.
So, I am thinking of installing LXQT on top with a different user as was mentioned in some links Fabby provided, it is not advisable to have same user in different DE.
The current user is “limo”, if I install LXQT I’ll create a new user and call it “tux”
I have syncthing installed on the KDE, syncing with an USB drive attached to another Windows 10 Laptop. Better not to sync allover again!
How can I make “tux” the owner of the home of “limo” and work with it normally?
Would I need to create new BackInTime and TimeShift tasks? Syncthing?
Thanks a lot!
EDIT: Would be OK after that to rename “/home/limo/” to “/home/tux/”?
So, as far as I understand I create another folder under /home/ (e.g. /home/tux/)
then copy the files from /home/limo/ to /home/tux/
When I log in to LXQT I will have /home/tux/ as my home and wont see the other /home/limo/ ?
Am I getting it right?
EDIT: Do you mean create absolutely out of /home/ something like /tux/home/tux/ from root?
EDIT 2: I don’t mind having KDE services running as I’ll mostly be using same services and KDE apps (Dolphin, K3B… Baloo…)
No. You create a folder outside home - a new structure starting from the root - adjecent to /home - not inside the /home tree.
/data/share
This way it is maintainable - and because the permissions I advised setting will make sure that any user can access the share - you don’t have to add groups to the users.
Plain and simple - which is by far the preferred way of doing things - do not complicate something which can be really simple - but alas - humans tend to overcomplicate things - and it took me some years to learn how to simplify my Linux.
But as I had to start somewhere - I started using Gnome and then simplified my way back - learning Linux in process - then ending up using Openbox window manager - which also is the window manager of LXQt - which is the reason why LXQt works so well.