On 2025-09-16, Michael wrote: > > Alt+Ctrl+F2 or F7 will show you what you started sddm with. Also in a > terminal you can check this output: > > ~ $ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE > wayland > > I'm running a wayland compositor here. If you see "x11", this means you are > running an xserver.
This (in a terminal emulator) can also come up empty under X11. Is this something that's set only by graphical login managers (or even just a subset of them)? (See also news://news.blueworldhosting.com/[email protected] , about the same thing in comp.os.linux.misc.) > In addition, top and ps axf will show what process is providing your desktop > GUI. > > If you are on wayland the xorg-session.log file will be empty, or absent, > while the wayland-session.log file will be getting fat. Perhaps just as xorg- > session.log file used to. :-) -- Nuno Silva
