Personally, I can't work with the "everything else has to be restarted
every time you want to try something" workflow. (I won't really be
happy until I can do kernel upgrades without having to log out (How's
the Hurd getting on?) :-)

> The other alternative is xinit/startx, which launches a server and
> then feeds a connection to that server to a script which attaches
> things to it to make a session.

Any pointers on how to get this going?