Detect Desktop Environment

This crate helps you to detect the current desktop environment. It was inspired by the detectDE function from xdg-util.

This library is stable. If you have an issue or want to add a desktop environment, open a Github issue or send a PR. Please also report possible naming issues.

Installation

Usage

extern crate detect_desktop_environment;

use detect_desktop_environment::{DesktopEnvironment, detect};

fn main() {
  let de: DesktopEnvironment = detect();
  println!("{:?}", de);
}

This library exposes two symbols: the detect function and it return value: the DesktopValue enum. All the variants are listed below in the "Supported environments" section.

Supported environments

Name	Thumbnail
Cinnamon
Enlightenment
Gnome
Kde
Lxde
Lxqt
MacOs
Mate
Unity
Windows
Xfce
Unknown