startup - Debian not booting into GUI - Unix & Linux Stack ...
unix.stackexchange.com › questions › 204387May 20, 2015 · As of Debian jessie, that's gdm3 (Gnome), kdm (KDE), lightdm (lightweight but themable), slim (lightweight but themable), wdm (lightweight but themable, oldish), xdm (old-style, bare-bones). You don't have to use a display manager that matches your desktop environment. If in doubt, pick lightdm.
DesktopEnvironment - Debian Wiki
wiki.debian.org › DesktopEnvironmentThis is the situation when a user accepts only the Debian desktop environment. Looking at apt show task-mate-desktop we see that it depends on task-desktop and mate-desktop-environment. Ticking MATE, with or without the Debian desktop environment ticked, would satisfy task-desktop's Recommends: line and install MATE instead of the Gnome default ...