Using Budgie alongside GNOME with 2 different user accounts - how to share data?

Sebastian

For the last 2 years I was using GNOME as my daily driver. I quite like it, but sometimes it feels narrow like a prison cell.
In the last couple of days I retried Plasma, Cinnamon and Budgie. You hear lot's of good things about Plasma. And that's how my Linux journey started some 23 years ago: Suse 8.2 with KDE. I liked it. But today I must say I can't stand it anymore. Just too confusing.
I really really like the Cinnamon Desktop. Though we don't have it. Tried to compile it. Just too complex for me. Could switch to Fedora for that. But I don't really see me leaving the Solus ship (I have only one computer).
So, Budgie. I started my Solus journey with Budgie. Still like it. It's a breeze of fresh air. The only 2 things that are missing are clickable notifications and calendar integration in raven.
I'd like to spend more time on Budgie. I have installed it alongside GNOME.
But since GNOME and Budgie still share the same base or some settings, you can't really use them parralel wirh the same user account. Some things just aren't quite working. But when creating a seperate user for Budgie, everything plays out fine.
BUT: I kind of would like to share/use (read and write) some user data (music library, Documents, notes, etc) with both of those 2 users. Is there any good way of setting this up? That the budgie user could use lets say use gnote, rednotebook, music library of the GNOME user?

Sebastian

Sebastian I found a really interesting solution on stackoverflow

In terminal:
sudo xhost + sudo -i -u username command you want to run sudo xhost -

Like this I can run gnote, rednotebook, whatever program in the budgie session with the budgie user as the GNOME user accessing the GNOME users data. Even playing music with rhythmbox accessing the GNOME's user music library.
Downside: no MPRIS media info in Raven.
Will handle playing music maybe differently. But for everything else this seems to work extremely good.

Will play around with this solution. Will try to edit the desktop files for gnote etc that they run a script with the above commands.

But I am still open for alternatives.

TraceyC

Disclaimer: Using more than one desktop environment may break things and isn't officially supported.

The easiest way to share data between two sessions on the same system is to use a separate disk partition that can be mounted by either user session. For example, you could have a partition mounted at /data/ or /mnt/data/ or wherever you want that folder, and make sure it gets auto mounted. Make sure the directory is read / writeable by regular users (by making it read/write for the "users" group).