What is the default display manager in Ubuntu

Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez jlalarcon at clovermail.net
Thu Oct 20 19:18:25 UTC 2016


On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 08:40:27PM +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
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 

Thanks for all the replies. Sorry for my fault. Almost obviosly where i
wrote window manager i meant display manager. It was a "lapsus", sorry.

Thanks, again. You are very kind.

Regards.

Jose.

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