On Tue, 2019-09-24 at 17:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 9/24/19 5:44 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-09-24 at 12:13 +0530, Danishka Navin wrote:
> > > No, you need to find the display manager process. lxdm is usually the
> > > one used for lxde.
> > >
> > >
> > I have checked /etc/sysconfig/desktop and found that lxdm is the Display
> > Manager
> That may not be reliable. I only ever use KDE, but my
> /etc/sysconfig/desktop file says:
>
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> DESKTOP=GNOME
>
> OTOH, I have:
>
> $ systemctl status sddm
> ● sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager
> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled;
> vendor preset: enabled)
> Active: active (running) since Fri 2019-09-20 10:53:31 BST; 3 days
> ago
Which is why the accurate way to determine the DM is....
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ ll /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 36 Nov 5 2017 /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service ->
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service
And note where the symbolic link points
Exactly.
poc