I downloaded, no longer have the download, but am wondering how to figure this as I am booted into the installation now.
I need help with another question and want to post in the proper desktop environment section.
Thanks
I downloaded, no longer have the download, but am wondering how to figure this as I am booted into the installation now.
I need help with another question and want to post in the proper desktop environment section.
Thanks
try in the terminal:
screenfetch
go to settings and click system information
echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
in yout terminal.
inxi -S
will also reveal it.
You already have great answers above. If I were writing a script I’d use the XDG environment variable, but at the command line I would use the script inxi
. It has many options, so definitely do a man inxi
.
Using a broader stroke, you could execute the set
command and pipe it to less (set | less
) and view the variables in your environment. Since XDG is a freedesktop standard, that most linux desktops follow these days, you could use bash variable expansion and do declare -p ${!XDG@}
to print all variables that begin with “XDG”.
Thanks guys.
Working through the answers. Terminal won’t open. It just times out and never opens.
But the settings >about route worked. I am using Gnome.
The file manager is not thrilling me: (big spaces between the entries in list view and will not alphabetize properly.) This latter glitch really confuses me. I can sort the folder content by name all that I want and there will be entries that are out of alphabetical order. Never ever seen that before. Any ideas ?
Im very happy with xfce, just be aware that its not the most flashy desktop.
I recommend KDE.
Thanks guys