NAME Desktop::Detect - Detect desktop environment currently running VERSION This document describes version 0.01 of Desktop::Detect (from Perl distribution Desktop-Detect), released on 2014-11-22. SYNOPSIS use Desktop::Detect qw(detect_desktop); my $res = detect_desktop(); DESCRIPTION This module uses several heuristics to find out what desktop environment is currently running, along with extra information. FUNCTIONS detect_desktop() => HASHREF Return a hashref containing information about running desktop environment and extra information. Return empty hashref if not detected running under any desktop environment. Detection is done from the cheapest methods, e.g. looking at environment variables. Several environment variables are checked, e.g. "DESKTOP_SESSION", "XDG_DESKTOP_SESSION", etc. Result: * desktop => STR Possible values: xfce, kde-plasma. TODO * Window manager information * XFCE: version * Detect GNOME * Detect MATE * Detect Unity * Detect LXDE * Detect Cinnamon * Detect JWM * Detect Windows? SEE ALSO HOMEPAGE Please visit the project's homepage at . SOURCE Source repository is at . BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature. AUTHOR perlancar COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2014 by perlancar@cpan.org. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.