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.
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