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)