detect xfce, su(do) equivalent

[Olivier Fourdan]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Egon Kocjan <egon at krul.ath.cx> wrote:
> How do I check, if the user is running xfce?
> (for example, to detect gnome, check for env. var. GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID)

Which is completely broken because one may set
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID on purpose to defeat programs that try to be
smart by detecting the desktop (e.g. some older open office of java
versions from sun)

Cheers,
Olivier.