Neofetch says Gnome 40.5, Configuration says 40.4

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

neofetch is a bash script that does a lot of guessing, if for example
the non-standard fantasy environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP isn't
set, it falls back to the DESKTOP_SESSION variable, that probably only
shows the file that tells the display manager how to start a GUI user
session. In my case a non-*buntu lightdm starts a script to select an
openbox window manager profile. No desktop environment gets launched.

The script makes assumptions. It's a slow, bloated, fancy tool that
partly provides correct information and partly just displays
useless clutter.

You need to take a look at the script and verify first, if it provides
valid information or just pointless crap.

"Neofetch displays information about your operating system, software
and hardware in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way." -
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

The script's focus is on eye candy, not on reliability, neither on
suitable processing speed or real portability, since it requires bash
even on "BSD".

If bashisms are really wanted, then it still is smart to e.g. avoid
endless "if" checking in favour of the faster "case" checking etc., let
alone that it's already questionable that such a checking is needed to
provide facts. Facts are available by e.g. /sys/devices/system/ without
the need of "if" "else" checking.


$ neofetch | grep DE
                                         DE: openbox-lcd-realignment
$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
openbox-lcd-realignment
$ grep Exec /usr/share/xsessions/openbox-lcd-realignment.desktop 
Exec=/usr/local/bin/openbox-profile-lcd-realignment
TryExec=/usr/local/bin/openbox-profile-lcd-realignment
$ ls -hld ~/.config/openbox* | head -4
lrwxrwxrwx rocketmouse rocketmouse  31 B  Tue Oct 26 10:12:30 2021 /home/rocketmouse/.config/openbox ⇒ openbox-profile-lcd-realignment
drwxr-xr-x rocketmouse rocketmouse 4.0 KB Sat Sep 13 15:05:58 2014 /home/rocketmouse/.config/openbox-profile
drwxr-xr-x rocketmouse rocketmouse 4.0 KB Tue Aug  8 20:40:28 2017 /home/rocketmouse/.config/openbox-profile-lcd-1
drwxr-xr-x rocketmouse rocketmouse 4.0 KB Sun Aug 27 12:50:28 2017 /home/rocketmouse/.config/openbox-profile-lcd-realignment
$ grep DE /usr/bin/neofetch 
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
    info "DE" de
#       Hyperbola, janus, Kali, KaOS, KDE_neon, Kibojoe, Kogaion,
#       Korora, KSLinux, Kubuntu, LEDE, LFS, Linux_Lite,
#       LMDE, Lubuntu, Lunar, macos, Mageia, MagpieOS, Mandriva,
# DETECT INFORMATION
                    off)  distro="${PRETTY_NAME:-${DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION}} ${UBUNTU_CODENAME}" ;;
            elif [[ -f /etc/SDE-VERSION ]]; then
                distro="$(< /etc/SDE-VERSION)"
            if [[ $DESKTOP_SESSION == regolith ]]; then
            elif [[ $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP ]]; then
                de=${XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP/X\-}
            elif [[ $DESKTOP_SESSION ]]; then
                de=${DESKTOP_SESSION##*/}
            elif [[ $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID ]]; then
            elif [[ $MATE_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID ]]; then
            elif [[ $TDE_FULL_SESSION ]]; then
            # window manager name. This checks to see if WM == DE
            # and discards the DE value.
        de=$(xprop -root | awk '/KDE_SESSION_VERSION|^_MUFFIN|xfce4|xfce5/')
        KDE_SESSION_VERSION*) de=KDE${de/* = } ;;
    ((${KDE_SESSION_VERSION:-0} >= 4)) && de=${de/KDE/Plasma}
        de_ver=${de_ver/*TDE:}
                LXDE*) ob_file=lxde-rc ;;
        # Get DE if user has disabled the function.
        # Check for DE Theme.
            "KDE"* | "Plasma"*)
                    err "Theme: KDE config files not found, skipping."
            theme="${theme/ '[KDE]'}"
            # Get DE if user has disabled the function.
    # If the user is using KDE get the KDE
                                KaOS, KDE_neon, Kibojoe, Kogaion, Korora, KSLinux, Kubuntu, LEDE,
                                LFS, Linux_Lite, LMDE, Lubuntu, Lunar, macos, Mageia, MagpieOS,
DEVELOPER:
                    info "DE" de
${c1}    IJFDUFHJNXIXCDXDSV,${c2}  "DEBL
        "KDE"*)
        "LEDE"*)
  /    DE  /    \
 \        \   DE /
   \  DE    \  /
        "LMDE"*)


Regards,
Ralf