$DESKTOP_SESSION


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Hey Guys i need as many of these as i can

I need to know what $DESKTOP_SESSION shows in the following DE's

LXDE

XFCE

Cinnamon

KDE

Gnome 2

Gnome 3

and any others you could provide

can you paste what yours says and also what DE ur on :)

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Arch Linux release
LSB_VERSION=1.4
DISTRIB_ID=arch
DISTRIB_RELEASE=rolling
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Arch Linux"
NAME="Arch Linux"
ID=arch
PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux"
ANSI_COLOR="0;36"
HOME_URL="https://www.archlinux.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://bbs.archlinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.archlinux.org/"
[/CODE]

$ cat /etc/*-release

Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)

NAME=Fedora

VERSION="17 (Beefy Miracle)"

ID=fedora

VERSION_ID=17

PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle)"

ANSI_COLOR="0;34"

CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17"

Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)

Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)

i am making a little system script thats give system info and takes a screenshot

on every other release so far the last line in "cat /etc/*-release" is the distro name

all but Arch lol

Awesome thanks

i had got as far as

os=$(cat /etc/*-release | awk '/PRETTY_NAME/{print}')[/CODE]

lol
anyone wanna test it to make sure it works if i send a link?

EDIT: Tiagosilva mentioned lsb_release, which seems to do a lot of what you need with less need for grepping and whatnot.
[code]
[karl@HERA ~]$ lsb_release -d
Description:    Arch Linux

I assume that using 'lsb_release --codename' in Fedora would produce "Beefy Miracle", in Arch it produces "n/a".

In case you're still interested, I haven't seen any Debian users post yet so I'll contribute as well.


$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION

$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
ID=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy)
Release: testing
Codename: wheezy
$ uname -a
Linux ZIPPYZEBRA 3.2.0-4-powerpc #1 Debian 3.2.32-1 ppc GNU/Linux
[/CODE]

Note that my [i]$DESKTOP_SESSION[/i] is unset. I am running Openbox as my DE, if that helps.

hmmm i thought openbopx set the $desktop_session

thats fine though if it does not find any it sets as "Not Found" lol

I think i will stick with Pretty_Name from /etc/*-release as it seems to be on all Distros

xorangekiller i have pm'd you with a link if you would like to test i would like a few people with different distros to do this :)

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