On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 08:11, Dan Hitt <dan.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I still would like a programmatic/command-line way of detecting what the > desktop.
Try this command, shown here with the output I get on my system which uses the LXDE desktop. Whatever output you get will depend on whatever environment variables your desktop sets. $ env | grep -i DESKTOP DESKTOP_SESSION=LXDE XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=lightdm-xsession XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=LXDE XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
