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I have installed a Ubuntu 16.04LTS system, how can I know whether Gnome or KDE is installed ? (I searched a bit, but this is not at all intuitive).

Duchamp Gérard H. E.
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(this follows on from comments. @DK Bose provided

env | grep XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

which confirmed 'Unity' as the DEsktop)

Unity is a Canonical DEsktop that is a drop-in-replacement for gnome with advantages & of course disadvantages; it isn't gnome but uses the same version of GTK+ /Glib so can use gnome apps without disadvantage (no wasted memory etc)

As to tweaking: instead of trying to use 'gnome-tweak-tools' I suggested adding the Unity Tweak Tool

sudo apt install unity-tweak-tool

as it provides far more options for Unity than gnome-tweak-tool.

guiverc
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