Hi Janneke,

>> I was involved in the packaging of exwm when it was first done, and I
>> hear your frustration. :-) Please do send patches (with me on Cc)
>> addressing the issue, and we can continue our discussion there.
>
> As someone who didn't have a prior EXWM setup in their .emacs, I have
> been enjoying the separate .exwm config file.

Ah, I see. That may be good reason to not break this separation between
.emacs and .exwm.

> I'm wondering, how have you managed to switch off exwm when running a
> nested emacs or a console emacs?

I myself have never run a nested emacs or a console emacs session. So, I
have never encountered this problem.

Cheers!
Arun