Neofetch says Gnome 40.5, Configuration says 40.4

Wed Oct 27 14:06:40 UTC 2021

El mié, 27 de oct de 2021 a las 01:34, Slade Watkins 
<slade at sladewatkins.com> escribió:
> 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
> 
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Thanks very much, Keith, Ralf, Slade, for your answers.

Regards.
Jose.

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