Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-04 Thread Linux-Fan
David writes: On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 08:11, Dan Hitt wrote: > > I still would like a programmatic/command-line way of detecting what the desktop. Try this command, shown here with the output I get on my system which uses the LXDE desktop. Whatever output you get will depend on whatever

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 1:28 PM David wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 08:11, Dan Hitt wrote: > > > > I still would like a programmatic/command-line way of detecting what the > desktop. > > Try this command, shown here with the output I get on my system > which uses the LXDE desktop. Whatever

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread David
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 08:11, Dan Hitt wrote: > > I still would like a programmatic/command-line way of detecting what the > desktop. Try this command, shown here with the output I get on my system which uses the LXDE desktop. Whatever output you get will depend on whatever environment variables

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 1:05 PM David wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 07:42, Dan Hitt wrote: > > [...] > > > The desktop manager looks different: i think it is gnome, but i'd like > it to be xfce. > > [...] > > > sudo update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > > switching from (iirc)

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread Joe
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 12:41:51 -0800 Dan Hitt wrote: > Hi, > > I recently switched from using debian 9 (stretch) to debian 10 > (buster). I did this on a new partition of my disk so i think it > should be a clean install, and it seems to be. > > The desktop manager looks different: i think it is

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 03 Nov, 2019 at 12:41:51 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: >Hi, >I recently switched from using debian 9 (stretch) to debian 10 >(buster). I did this on a new partition of my disk so i think it >should be a clean install, and it seems to be. >The desktop manager looks different:

Re: changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread David
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 07:42, Dan Hitt wrote: [...] > The desktop manager looks different: i think it is gnome, but i'd like it to > be xfce. [...] > sudo update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > switching from (iirc) mutter to lightdm. Then i rebooted. Hi, Your question

changing desktop manager from gnome to xfce in debian

2019-11-03 Thread Dan Hitt
Hi, I recently switched from using debian 9 (stretch) to debian 10 (buster). I did this on a new partition of my disk so i think it should be a clean install, and it seems to be. The desktop manager looks different: i think it is gnome, but i'd like it to be xfce. What i did was to install the