On 4/22/21 3:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 23/04/2021 04:04, home user wrote:
Is that referring to gnome vs. plasma vs. mate vs. (etc)? If yes, I usually log into the first GNOME entry, which is apparently the same as GNOME on Xorg. The version is 3.38.5. The windowing system is X11.
That is the DE or Desktop Environment
If no, how do I determine that?
ll /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service
or
systemctl status display-manager
bash.8[~]: systemctl status display-manager ● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2021-04-22 10:57:46 MDT; 4h 27min ago Docs: man:lightdm(1) Main PID: 979 (lightdm) Tasks: 5 (limit: 19096) Memory: 76.8M CPU: 6min 44.528s CGroup: /system.slice/lightdm.service ├─ 979 /usr/sbin/lightdm └─129997 /usr/libexec/Xorg -core -noreset :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt1 -novtswitch
Warning: some journal files were not opened due to insufficient permissions. bash.9[~]: ll /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 39 Sep 26 2015 /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service bash.10[~]:
lightdm (= Light Display Manager)