On 2025-09-16, Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 16 September 2025 11:24:48 British Summer Time Nuno Silva wrote: >> On 2025-09-16, Michael wrote: >> > Alt+Ctrl+F2 or F7 will show you what you started sddm with. Also in a >> > terminal you can check this output: >> > >> > ~ $ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE >> > wayland >> > >> > I'm running a wayland compositor here. If you see "x11", this means you >> > are running an xserver. >> >> This (in a terminal emulator) can also come up empty under X11. Is this >> something that's set only by graphical login managers (or even just a >> subset of them)? >> >> (See also news://news.blueworldhosting.com/[email protected] >> , about the same thing in comp.os.linux.misc.) > > I just tried it running on an xterm within an X session and it returned "x11".
Yes, but I can guarantee it is not necessarily always set under X11. So it most likely means something else? -- Nuno Silva
