Re: How to find out the current display manager?
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:46:05AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Felipe Salvador
> <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 0;115;0cIn-Reply-To: <[🔎] CABpbYae5E3sdoNsX328ugMmXj9Yh88LJuyK6R_nU7tw7hQoOYA@mail.gmail.com>
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 09:47:40PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> >> How can I find out the display manager currently running on a machine
> >> from the command line?
> >
> > I'm not sure, did you mean something like:
> >
> > ~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
> > /usr/share/xsessions/plasma
>
> No, that is not what I mean. I came across this while searching in
> google. But this shows the desktop session and not the display
> manager. For example, I am running lightdm display manager but the
> DESKTOP_SESSION points to plasma.
Ok, sorry.
I'm on a stretch/sid, did you have this file?
/etc/X11/default-display-manager[1]
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch07.en.html#_starting_the_x_window_system
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Felipe Salvador
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