On 06/04/14 12:26, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 05 April 2014 22:12:15 ray wrote: >>> Which desktop manager are you using? >> >> I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the >> terminology. Please help me understand 'which desktop manager'. > > Yes. If you are running GNOME you have probably, though no > necessarily, got gdm - gnome desktop manager. Lisi > > Lisi, As Tom has already mentioned, you quite likely mean *display* rather than *desktop* manager. And in the case of gdm, apt-cache show gdm3 tells us among other things:
"Description-en: Next generation GNOME Display Manager GDM provides the equivalent of a "login:" prompt for X displays: it asks for a login and starts X sessions." --- Ray, > I think I am using Gnome; I am using the default, it has the menus at > the top like Gnome where KDE has them at the bottom and I have not > found any way to determine which GUI I actually have. > > ray If you are in Gnome, a GUI way of finding out is to take one of the many ways (right-click on background, or press Win key and type settings, or from the user menu, or... ) to go to Settings --> Details and it'll say in big bold letters Gnome X.x.x and other stuff. Sorry, can't help with KDE, never seen it myself. Or you open a terminal, and look at /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager and see where it points to, which in my case yields $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 16 22:09 /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager -> /usr/bin/gnome-session It also still looks like you haven't found how & where to switch between different desktop environments, eg. Gnome <--> KDE. No need to reboot, just log out, and once you are back at the login screen, select your user name and enter the password, but before clicking login there is another (dropdown?) menu from which you can select the "session". Can you see your newly installed KDE in the list? -- Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53415929.2090...@gmail.com
