Selecting a session by the sddm greater - Was: Trying to open Different Flavors

[Dick Barmann]

On 08/13/2016 04:38 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 09:23:05 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> But it doesn't, apparently, work, so the question remains, what
>> *exactly* did he install?
> Perhaps he should post the output of a third command:
>
>   dpkg -l *unity* *xfce4* *lxde* *mate* *gnome* *cinnamon* *sddm*|grep ii
>
> the other commands are still
>
>   ls -l /usr/share/xsessions/
>
> and
>
>   grep SessionDir /etc/sddm.conf
>
> Please format it human readable, perhaps you should redirect the output
> of the first command and attach the file.
>
>   dpkg -l *unity* *xfce4* *lxde* *mate* *gnome* *cinnamon* *sddm*|grep ii >/tmp/dpkg.txt
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
> dick at dick-desktop:~$ ls -l /usr/share/xsessions/
> total 36
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  236 Feb 10  2016 gnome-classic.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  207 May 18 04:35 gnome.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  157 Apr 11 02:08 Lubuntu.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  165 Apr 11 02:08 Lubuntu-Netbook.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1507 Feb 27 09:07 LXDE.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6915 Apr 11 08:52 mate.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  198 Oct 14  2015 openbox.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2109 Apr 15 02:18 plasma.desktop
> dick at dick-desktop:~$ grep SessionDir /etc/sddm.conf
> dick at dick-desktop:~$ dpkg -l LXDE |grep ii >/tmp/dpkg.txt
> dpkg-query: no packages found matching LXDE
> dick at dick-desktop:~$ dpkg -l lxde |grep ii >/tmp/dpkg.txt
ii  lxde           7ubuntu1     all          Metapackage for LXDE
Does this help? Sorry it took so long but plasma kept crashing. It has
stopped now.
Thanks
Dick