Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org,Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system
From: Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 06:45:02 +0100
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Hi,

>Is there a programmatic way that a piece of software can learn what
>desktop environment it is executing in?

Short answer: No.

Long answer:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/116539/how-to-detect-the-desktop-environment-in-a-bash-script

Cheers,
Nik

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