On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:07:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 17:30 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:42:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> > The details differ according to which desktop manager (DM) you're >> > using (which is *not* the same as the Desktop Environment). Wikipedia seems to conflate them. Got a link to something better? And where do window managers come into all this? Is that just an already obsolete term of art, or are they a third thing? >> > The >> > typical options are GDM, KDM, SDDM etc. In the case of SDDM there's a >> > drop-down menu at the lower left corner of the login screen where you >> > select which environment to log into. I forget how the others work >> > but it should be similar. From a couple of lucky observations, I seem to be running LightDM, for which so far I have found a debunking article, well-written but way over my head: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/2414.html > Glad it worked. Possibly a different DM might be easier to use for you. > You can change the DM quite easily, e.g.: > > # systemctl enable sddm (or kdm, gdm, lightdm, ...) I'll see what I can find to read about those. Fwiw, I tried a lot of things, but always stayed mostly with Gnome till Gnome3 came out .... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
