desktop for Mageia 4?

[Marshall Neill]

Which login manager are you using?    Lightdm, GDM, Slim?




On 02/09/2014 02:58 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 22:25:09 +0100, Stephan Haller wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am Donnerstag, den 06.02.2014, 20:12 +0000 schrieb Beartooth:
>>> 	I'm not sure what I'm running (and don't know how to check) on a
>>> new install of Mageia 4; but it sure doesn't seem to me to be my
>>> favored xfce4. Anybody know a safe and sure way to get it?? (I haven't
>>> spotted any choice on the login screen ...)
>> Good question. I have never thought about it ;) Maybe this way helps to
>> identify the desktop if it is not identified visually.
>>
>> Run the following command on a terminal at the desktop:
>>
>> export -p | grep DESKTOP_SESSION
>>
>> I woulde expect an output similar to this:
>>
>> declare -x DESKTOP_SESSION="Xfce Session"
>>
>> I should contain "Xfce".
> 	Alas! I get:
>
> [btth at localhost ~]$ export -p | grep DESKTOP_SESSION
> declare -x DESKTOP_SESSION="default"
> [btth at localhost ~]$
>
>
>> Another way is look at the running processes with "ps auxfw" and to look
>> for a process called "xfce4-session". If you can see it  I would say you
>> are running Xfce.
> 	Again alas! I tried both "ps auxfw|grep xfce" and "ps auxfw|most"
> and scanned the latter.
>
> 	So what is the default desktop for M 4, and how do I get xfce
> instead?? I'm sure I had it in M 3.