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Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system

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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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programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2017-03-17 06:20 +0100
  Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de> - 2017-03-17 06:50 +0100
  Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-17 09:10 +0100
    Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2017-03-18 04:20 +0100
      Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-03-18 10:30 +0100
  Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-03-18 17:00 +0100
    Re: programmatically determining the desktop environment of a system Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2017-03-19 19:20 +0100

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