On 10/3/18 11:00 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/3/18 10:37 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> . >> Two questions, my googling has not provided satisfactory answers for the >> first one. >> >> How do I show what desktop manager is running? > > AFAIK, there's no really clear way. You can "ps ax | grep dm | grep > sess" and sort it out that way: > > [rick@prophead ~]$ ps ax | grep dm | grep sess > 1923 ? Sl 0:00 lightdm --session-child 12 19 > > Assuming you're starting the GUI from systemd startup, you can find > which is used by default by doing something like: > > [root@prophead ~]# ls -l /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 39 Oct 17 2016 > /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service -> > /usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service > > So by default, systemd will spin up the lightdm display manager. I think > that's set up by a scriptlet when you install XFCE but I won't swear to > it. Forgot. Something like this will also work: [rick@prophead ~]$ systemctl status display-manager ● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager <snip extra crap> >> What desktop did the Fedora Xfce Spin come with? > > XFCE uses lightdm by default. You can use others if you wish. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't TOUCH anything!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
