On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 1:28 PM David <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 08:11, Dan Hitt <[email protected]> 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 > > Great, thanks David.
I think it's useful to do something like this so that everything is very concrete. I have the same 5 variables (with xfce values in 3 of them). Thanks everybody (David, Liam, Joe) for your help. dan
