On 2024-01-29 00:05, -pj wrote:

Is this good expected human readable info below?

:-D

I meant that when a human issues the command "update-alternatives --list default-displaymanager", we expect to be told which one is the active one, but no. So instead we have to use " update-alternatives --config default-displaymanager", which does tell us, albeit expecting an input from us to change it.

I've adjusted the terminal hostname and cursor colors here on this machine. How can I remove that easily in Thunderbird composed messages once pasted into reply?

Hum. When I paste from the terminal in XFCE, there are two "copy" commands or versions: one copies plain text, the other copies html. The second is the one that includes the colour information. Maybe KDE includes it always. To remove the colour in Thunderbird, you can select the paragraph, then menu "format", remove styles. Or colour, and choose a colour (black). The first one, as you can see, destroys the format, so you have to select again "preformat".

Me, I would leave it in red.

    Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: ^C
    localhost:~ # update-alternatives --list default-displaymanager
    /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/console
    /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/sddm
    /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/xdm
    localhost:~ # update-alternatives --config default-displaymanager
    There are 3 choices for the alternative default-displaymanager (providing /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers        /default-    displaymanager).

   Selection    Path                                  Priority   Status
    ------------------------------------------------------------
   * 0            /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/sddm      25        auto mode
   1            /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/console   5         manual mode
   2            /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/sddm      25        manual mode
   3            /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/xdm       10        manual mode

    Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

Anyway, as you can see, your system is indeed using sddm.

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Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)