On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:52:32PM -0300, Germán A. Racca wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > How to know if I'm using an xterm or a gnome-terminal from command line?
> >
> > The output of "echo $TERM" is "xterm" from both of them.
> >
> > How to know?
>
> James Wilkinson already outlined why most environment variables probably
> shouldn't be trusted, so I'll suggest checking the output of
> xprop -id $WINDOWID WM_CLASS
>
> HTH,
>
> Nalin
Thanks to all that answered my question with a lot of useful
suggestions.
Finally, I decided to use Nalin's suggestion and implement the following
command to know if I'm using an xterm or a gnome-terminal:
xprop -id $WINDOWID WM_CLASS | awk '{print $3}' | sed 's/"//g' | sed
's/,//g'
which returns either "xterm" or "gnome-terminal".
Cheers,
Germán.
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National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil
http://sites.google.com/site/gracca
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