Which x window manager

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Window managers are X clients that control the appearance and behaviour of the frames "windows" where the various graphical applications are drawn. They determine the border, title bar, size, and ability to resize windows, and often provide other functionality such as reserved areas for sticking dockapps like Window Maker , or the ability to tab windows like Fluxbox. Some window managers are even bundled with simple utilities like menus to start programs or to configure the window manager itself.

The Extended Window Manager Hints specification is used to allow window managers to interact in standard ways with the server and the other clients. Some window managers are developed as part of a more comprehensive desktop environment , usually allowing the other provided applications to better interact with each other, giving a more consistent experience to the user, complete with features like desktop icons, fonts, toolbars, wallpapers, or desktop widgets.

Other window managers are instead designed to be used standalone , giving the user complete freedom over the choice of the other applications to be used. This allows the user to create a more lightweight and customized environment, tailored to their own specific needs. In the terminal type env to see all environment variables. I did the following to get the name since the parameter -l adds the process ID: pgrep -l compiz cut -d " " -f2 since the process is running by the same user there is no need to prefix the sudo part.

Ken Sharp 8 8 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. Luis Alvarado Luis Alvarado k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Those just tell me the session name and desktop environment. It says "gnome-classic" which is a session name, there is no such window manager with that name.

There you go. Found a command that can help with the process list. Got to that part, at least it shows you the name of the window manager if found. Trying to check if I can add all of them together there. Your question is very good since Ubuntu I found pstree to be a big help.

Installation sudo apt-get install pstree output This is what I got. Sridhar Sarnobat Sridhar Sarnobat 1, 12 12 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Can you explain how this works? Also, I think you' re missing a at the end. LouisMatthijssen 1. Does not detect ratpoision but got me headed in the right direction — hildred. Just two cents. The only answer to the question I found. Msedfi Msedfi 51 2 2 bronze badges. XFCE also has several gnome Thomas 5, 12 12 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges.

NanuBuria NanuBuria 39 1 1 bronze badge. You can use tool called inxi. In my case the window manager I use is i3. Option -S displays system info and x adds info about window manager. Michal Przybylowicz Michal Przybylowicz 2, 3 3 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges.

This is sort of possible with dbus and the Accounts Service both by default in Ubuntu. XSession ubuntu Worth noting that I've tested this with logging in through lightdm that is the graphical login screen , it did detect a classic desktop like blackbox , and obviously detects Unity. Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Script The following script resulted as the best answer to a similar question I posted over at unix. Community Bot 1. Serge Stroobandt Serge Stroobandt 3, 1 1 gold badge 37 37 silver badges 50 50 bronze badges.