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How can I determine the name of the display manager in use solely by using the command line?

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Abdul Al Hazred
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Short answer:

As mentioned in this answer on Unix & Linux, you should be able to get that from:

cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager

I tried it on both Unity and XFCE, both worked.

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Jacob Vlijm
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Other way to find more detailed information about the window manager you're using is by running either neofetch or screenfetch. Both are similar and are available in Debian repositories. I install Neofetch and it show my WM also to be WM: Mutter.Result of screenfetch and neofetch

you can install them in debian systems CLI by :

sudo apt install neofetch screenfetch
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