Re: How to find out the current display manager?

From	Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How to find out the current display manager?
Date	2017-01-16 12:10 +0100
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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

?

> Google tells me that /etc/X11/default-display-manager will show the
> default display manager. But I want the display manager that is
> currently running (which can be different from the default). Is that
> possible?
> 
> thanks
> raju

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Felipe Salvador

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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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