I have a computer with Arch linux. I want to know which desktop environment is installed.
My ultimate goal would be to install Gnome. Is it possible to have two desktop environments.
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Post a screenshot, if you can find a way to do that. – Tom Hunt Sep 16 '15 at 22:09
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It's definitely possible to have multiple desktop environments installed. Even multiple DE running in separate GUI sessions at the same time. But only a single DE in a given GUI session. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Sep 16 '15 at 23:55
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You can try to print some env variable. At least gnome fill the X environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP correctly:
$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
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