Determine if Xfce is running
    Brian J. Tarricone 
    bjt23 at cornell.edu
       
    Thu Sep 13 20:01:15 CEST 2007
    
    
  
Christian Dywan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder, what would be a good way to figure out from a program, if the
> user is running Xfce? I know about the environment
> variable DESKTOP_SESSION, which is set by gdm and (a recent) kdm. Yet
> this works only if there's actually one of these running. So are there
> any alternatives?
xprop -root _DT_SAVE_MODE | grep -q xfce4
... should do the trick.  At least, that's what xdg-utils does.
	-brian
    
    
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