What is the default display manager in Ubuntu

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:40:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:23:53 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote:
>>On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:19:54 +0200 Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote:  
>>> What is the default window manager that the system execute at the
>>> boot time?. Maybe lightdm?, other?. The question is about the
>>> default version of Ubuntu, not a flavour.    
>>
>>Lightdm.  
>
>Lightdm is not a window manager. Regarding
>http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/unity a hard dependency of unity, the
>default desktop environment, it's compiz.
>
>Regarding http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/ubuntu-desktop lightdm is
>the default display manager.
>
>Summarized, by default
>
>Display manager:     lightdm
>Window manager:      compiz
>Desktop environment: unity

PS: During startup no WM is started at all. The WM is started, if you
start a user session.