How risky is it to install various additional window managers?
I've been wanting to try out a couple different window managers and build out some dotfiles for them because i've been enjoying the process of setting up dotfiles, i've originally had gnome + hyprland installed, and have since switched to using mangoWM.
What are the risks involved in having multiple window managers installed? i'm not planning on adding any other DEs, as i've heard those can cause significant issues if multiple are installed and i'm only interested in setting up WMs at the moment anyways. in theory as long as all non-universal autostarts are handled by the WM itself and there's no overlapping/conflicting dependencies, it should be fine right?
just wanting to check before i start installing other stuff to my device, i'd rather not cause things to become significantly less stable on my mangoWM setup.
Posted Jun 3, 2026, 1:40 AM UTC