On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:07:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 17:30 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:42:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > The details differ according to which desktop manager (DM) you're
> > using (which is *not* the same as the Desktop Environment).
Wikipedia seems to conflate them. Got a link to something better?
And where do window managers come into all this? Is that just an already
obsolete term of art, or are they a third thing?
> > The
> > typical options are GDM, KDM, SDDM etc. In the case of SDDM there's a
> > drop-down menu at the lower left corner of the login screen where you
> > select which environment to log into. I forget how the others work
> > but it should be similar.
From a couple of lucky observations, I seem to be running LightDM,
for which so far I have found a debunking article, well-written but way
over my head:
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/2414.html
Glad it worked. Possibly a different DM might be easier to use for
you.
You can change the DM quite easily, e.g.:
# systemctl enable sddm (or kdm, gdm, lightdm, ...)
I'll see what I can find to read about those. Fwiw, I tried a lot
of things, but always stayed mostly with Gnome till Gnome3 came out ....
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Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.