On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:46:05AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Felipe Salvador > <felipe.salva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 0;115;0cIn-Reply-To: > > <cabpbyae5e3sdonsx328ugmmxj9yh88ljuyk6r_nu7tw7hqo...@mail.gmail.com> > > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 09:47:40PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > >> How can I find out the display manager currently running on a machine > >> from the command line? > > > > I'm not sure, did you mean something like: > > > > ~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION > > /usr/share/xsessions/plasma > > No, that is not what I mean. I came across this while searching in > google. But this shows the desktop session and not the display > manager. For example, I am running lightdm display manager but the > DESKTOP_SESSION points to plasma.
Ok, sorry. I'm on a stretch/sid, did you have this file? /etc/X11/default-display-manager[1] [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch07.en.html#_starting_the_x_window_system -- Felipe Salvador
