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[Haggis]

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

[+Majesticmerc]

[karl@HERA ~]$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
xfce
[karl@HERA ~]$

Arch x64 running XFCE 4.10

[Mindovermaster]

david@david-ubuntu:~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
cinnamon
 

Ubuntu 12.10 Cinnamon

[tiagosilva29]

$ uname -a
Linux azrael 3.6.7-4.fc17.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Nov 20 20:07:38 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ gnome-session --version
gnome-session 3.4.2
$ printf "%s\n" $DESKTOP_SESSION
gnome

[Haggis]

can u guys also do

cat /etc/*-release

[+Majesticmerc]

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/"

[Haggis]

lol why does arch need to be different from everyone else

[n_K]

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/"

[tiagosilva29]

$ 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)

[Haggis]

suppose could search for name first then do the normal for other distros

[+Majesticmerc]

what are you trying to do?

[Haggis]

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

[n_K]

I wouldn't rely on the last line being the OS name, I'd read it like an INI and get it from NAME="". There's no reason why the last line will be the OS name

[Haggis]

ok whats best way to pull that?

[n_K]

In bash? No idea