$DESKTOP_SESSION

[Haggis Veteran]

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 MVC]

[karl@HERA ~]$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
xfce
[karl@HERA ~]$
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Arch x64 running XFCE 4.10

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

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

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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 Veteran]

can u guys also do

cat /etc/*-release
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[+Majesticmerc MVC]

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/"
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[Haggis Veteran]

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/"

:p

[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 Veteran]

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

[+Majesticmerc MVC]

what are you trying to do?

[Haggis Veteran]

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 Veteran]

ok whats best way to pull that?

[n_K]

In bash? No idea :p

[+Majesticmerc MVC]

ok whats best way to pull that?

cat /etc/*-release | grep "^NAME=" | sed -r 's/NAME="?([^"]+)"?/\1/'

[Haggis Veteran]

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?

[tiagosilva29]

If you are only after the Linux distibution name (not the OS name) the installation is Linux Standard Base compliant (good luck with that): I think that lsb_release -i is what you need. If you're after the OS name on a POSIX compliant system, uname -s.

[+Majesticmerc MVC]

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".

[Haggis Veteran]

I used Pretty Name lol

[Karl L.]

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

[Haggis Veteran]

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 :)