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Re: How to find out the current display manager?

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 12:00:22PM +0100, Felipe Salvador wrote:
> 0;115;0cIn-Reply-To: <CABpbYae5E3sdoNsX328ugMmXj9Yh88LJuyK6R_nU7tw7hQoOYA@mail.gmail.com>
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> 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

Thanks for that nice example.

That's why I went to such lengts. On my system, this variable is unset
(and this is OK). But this (setting a variable in the session init, as
your system is doing) was one of the things I proposed. Of course, if
your system is already doing it: the merrier.

regards
- -- tomás
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Re: How to find out the current display manager? Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2017-01-16 12:10 +0100
  Re: How to find out the current display manager? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-01-16 12:40 +0100
  Re: How to find out the current display manager? kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2017-01-16 17:50 +0100
    Re: How to find out the current display manager? Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2017-01-18 11:30 +0100

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