Official Raspbian images based on Debian Stretch by default has the Pixel desktop environment and will login new users to it. But if you have had a Raspbian installation with another DE (such as LXDE), here are the steps to install and login to the Pixel desktop.
apt-get install raspberrypi-ui-mods
sed -i 's/^autologin-user=pi/#autologin-user=pi/' /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
update-alternatives --set x-session-manager /usr/bin/startlxde-pi
sed -i 's/^Session=.*/Session=lightdm-xsession/' ${USER}/.dmrc
Make sure the user’s ‘.dmrc’ file is updated with the new startlxde-pi session as that is where lightdm login manager looks to decide which desktop should be launched.
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