When I installed Manjaro I got the nice desktop in the second picture. The WinKey bring up an app search window, etc.
I edited fsck to mount the home partition from a LinuxMint install, and in Manjaro I got the Desktop in the first picture with a mouse in the middle. I hate this desktop. How do I get the default desktop/WM for my Manjaro user account? I tried changing themes, but that didn’t get back to the Manjaro default.
When I run my account, it must be picking up stuff about my LM account (although my LM desktop is nothing like the one with the mouse!)
How can I dual boot and keep the LM desktop in LM and the default Manjaro desktop when running Manjaro?
Welcome to the forum! 
I take it you mean you edited /etc/fstab. fsck is a command for checking and/or repairing a filesystem.
By not using any configurations from Mint. You said yourself that you are mounting a Mint home directory. This means that Manjaro will apply as much of that configuration as is already defined in the preexisting configuration files, and it will use the upstream defaults for things that were not yet defined in there — e.g. the wallpaper with the mouse.
By not mounting the same /home in both distributions. You have to give each of them their own /home.
What you can do in order to have your data shared between both distribution is put that data on a separate partition that you then mount to a directory inside your $HOME in either distribution, or with another mountpoint — e.g. under /mnt — that you then create a symbolic link for in either $HOME. For instance, you could make ~/Documents into a symbolic link, instead of having it be an actual directory.
See if this tutorial below can provide you with inspiration. 
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Indeed! (You beat me to it again!).
This should be easily reversible, as long as configuration changes haven’t been made to your Mint’s /home from inside Manjaro.
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I ees queeck! 
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I loved that show. I did guess he meant fstab BTW. Don’t have the cat as an excuse this time either, hes on Dave’s lap and is behaving for a change! 
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That is Xfce4
in both cases
The appearance is dependent on . (dot) files and directories
and their content and what they refer to
which are different between the distributions
(background picture, shell initialization files …)
The setup and what is referred to is just different, even though it is Xfce4 in both cases.
The actual content of /home/$user is the same - the appearance is not.
You can’t mix them like that.
… you can’t
The content won’t change - but the appearance will be messed up
in at least one - if not in both …
… the dual booting business (esp. within different Linux distributions) has always been a mystery to me
… why? …
it’s nice and all that
to explore the differences
but then:
acknowledge them
account for them
You can share /home/$user no problem
just not the . (dot) files within it
… not across different distributions …
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If you do that then you should have different users, with different UID/GID, or each distro. However the default UID and GID for the first user is always 1000, and increments for each user afterwards.
As already mentioned, the easy way is to have a separate home.
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