How to locally test kwin without breaking my system?

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I am interested in developing patches for some kwin bugs (especially https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518585).

How do I locally test my patches without breaking my system (just in case something goes slightly wrong, I may end up with no GUI). What procedure do KDE developers use?

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I’m not a KDE dev, but… Perhaps testing in a virtual machine would help?

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I wasn’t sure how to achieve replacing system kwin without breaking the virtual machine :sweat_smile:

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