list all installed desktop Environments in Ubuntu

Question

I am Using Ubuntu 13.04 and I have installed many desktops environments to try them. Now I want to know is there any way I can list all the installed desktop environments from the command line tool.

You can read the installed DE list into the login screen. If you try to select a DE you will also see the list of all the installed DEs — PeppeDAlterio, Sep 18 '13 at 12:04
@PeppeDAlterio well , I did mention that already . I want to get from command line. — Raja G, Sep 18 '13 at 12:05

score 72 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 18 '13 at 12:16

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$ ls -l /usr/share/xsessions/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4791 Sep  6 15:45 kde-plasma.desktop

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edited Sep 18 '13 at 12:16

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answered Sep 18 '13 at 12:08

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come on brother , that much fast. some day I will give you complex task. :P – Raja G Sep 18 '13 at 12:15
I have added the image , hope you dont mind. – Raja G Sep 18 '13 at 12:20
6 minutes isn't really fast for Oli. – 0xc0de Dec 29 '17 at 11:44
How do we start one of these environments from the command line? – mad_greasemonkey Oct 26 '18 at 07:08
how to run one of them, manually? – ilw May 03 '21 at 08:27

list all installed desktop Environments in Ubuntu

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