Can not determine session name on debian with gnome3

[pdavydov108]

Hi! Thanks for your work, xSwipe is cool. I'm trying it on debian now with a patched synaptics driver (https://github.com/felipejfc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics). Unfortunately, xSwipe is not able to detect gnome environment, session name is always set to 'other'. Is it a bug, or should I install some package to fix it? My gnome session version is 3.8.4

[iberianpig]

Hi @pdavydov108, Thank you for telling the issue! Please run code below, pgrep -lf ^gnome-session | sed -e 's/.*gnome-session --session=//g' xSwipe is using this output as session-name detecting. If the output is no display, it must be detect as 'other'.

[pdavydov108]

Yeah, this command really outputs nothing for me, and the session name is set to 'other'. But is it correct? I'm using gnome in fact.

[iberianpig]

Please run code below, echo $DESKTOP_SESSION and tell me the output.

[pdavydov108]

It's output is "default"

[Henry78]

Same problem here with arch linux and gnome 3.10

$ pgrep -lf ^gnome-session | sed -e 's/.*gnome-session --session=//g'
537 gnome-session
$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
gnome

xSwipe tries to split the reported session in line 94 and afterwards the string is empty. I fixed it locally, but don't know if this breaks other systems:

94c94
< my $sessionName = (split "-session", (split" ", $data[0])[1])[0];
---
> my $sessionName = (split "session=", $data[0])[1];

[pdavydov108]

@Henry78, you code doesn't work for me as well, it seems that I don't have gnome-session running at all.. The only way that I was able to find to detect my desktop environment is to check $XDG_DATA_DIRS variable, as it is described here http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/116539/how-to-detect-the-desktop-environment-in-a-bash-script.

[mscalone]

I have the same problem. On Ubuntu 14.04 using Unity. Command outputs:

~$ pgrep -lf ^gnome-session | sed -e 's/.*gnome-session --session=//g'
 1903 gnome-session
~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
ubuntu

[iberianpig]

Sorry for late reply. Please check below code and tell me the output and whether it is right desktop environment.

if [ "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" = "" ]
then
  desktop=$(echo "$XDG_DATA_DIRS" | sed 's/.*\(xfce\|kde\|gnome\).*/\1/')
else
  desktop=$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
fi

desktop=${desktop,,}  # convert to lower case
echo "$desktop"

[ozank]

On Ubuntu14.04 it gives: unity but couldn't run the XSwipe on Ubuntu even with the patched synaptics driver

[A-Shahbazi]

I have a similar issue on ubuntu 14.04 x64(I could compile the modified synaptics driver and run the script but it seems my session is detected as 'other') I confirm both @ozank and @mscalone outputs on ubuntu 14.04.

[mscalone]

Hello people, FYI y upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 this modified driver didn't compiled. I found a fork that work: https://github.com/Chosko/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics