Neofetch says Gnome 40.5, Configuration says 40.4

[Slade Watkins]

Good morning,
See my response inline.

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 1:27 AM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> 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".


As someone who has used it before, I agree here. You'll be better off
finding something lighter (and way more accurate) that can accomplish
the same things as Neofetch.

>
> 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
>
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Best,
             -slade