On Tuesday, 16 September 2025 11:24:48 British Summer Time Nuno Silva wrote: > 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.)
I just tried it running on an xterm within an X session and it returned "x11".
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