[SOLVED] Identify Version

borgward · 12-29-2018, 04:14 PM

How do I identify the version of mint? I am running live 32bit session. I want to know if it is Cinnamon, Mate, or XFCE. Disk may be mis labeled. Already ran:
hostnamectl
uname -mrs
cat /proc/version They do not specify whether Cinnamon, Mate, etc.

Didier Spaier · 12-29-2018, 04:37 PM

Try:
echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

average_user · 12-29-2018, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by borgward

How do I identify the version of mint? I am running live 32bit session. I want to know if it is Cinnamon, Mate, or XFCE. Disk may be mis labeled. Already ran:
hostnamectl
uname -mrs
cat /proc/version They do not specify whether Cinnamon, Mate, etc.

The last two won't definitely give you the information you're looking for as they refer to kernel version. For example, see kernel/utsname_sysctl.c for an implementation of /proc/version in Linux source code:

Code:

	{
		.procname	= "version",
		.data		= init_uts_ns.name.version,
		.maxlen		= sizeof(init_uts_ns.name.version),
		.mode		= 0444,
		.proc_handler	= proc_do_uts_string,
	},

hydrurga · 12-29-2018, 07:25 PM

If you have a fairly up-to-date version of inxi installed, an alternative is:

Code:

inxi -S

frankbell · 12-29-2018, 08:39 PM

I find that this usually works:

Code:

cat /etc/*release*

It's sort of a catchall (that's the reason for the wildcards), but it hasn't failed me yet.

Sometimes, this also works:

Code:

cat /etc/*issue*

borgward · 12-30-2018, 07:58 AM

Both of the following worked.

echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

inxi -S