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echo: rberrypi
to: BOB PROHASKA
from: ALISTER
date: 2018-12-04 09:22:00
subject: Re: Misregistered desktop

On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 02:19:31 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:

> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>>
>> Probably the best bet is to discover which desktop you're using and
>> then
>
> I'm using whatever Stretch uses by default. Oddly enough, it's not
> obvious what desktop that might be. I thought it would be lxde, but ls
> -a in the home directory finds hidden directories for .gnome, .gnome2
> and .gnome2-private, all of which are empty.
>
> Top reports lxpanel and lxterminal running, which I think _are_ lxde
> programs,
> but there's no other obvious hint.
>
> Thanks for reading, any clues appreciated!
>
> bob prohaska

The latest Pi uses the Pixel desktop which i believe is simply a tweaked
LXDE desktop https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-pixel/, the
reason for the gnome directories is IIRC LXDE uses the GTK toolkit



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