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inxi doesn't recognize Cinnamon/MATE desktops #37

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run inxi -S

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What happens:
System:    Host rarity Kernel 3.5.3-2-ck x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop Gnome Distro 
Arch Linux

System:    Host LM13PC Kernel 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop N/A 
Distro Linux Mint 13 Maya

What should happen:
System:    Host rarity Kernel 3.5.3-2-ck x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop Cinnamon 
Distro Arch Linux

System:    Host LM13PC Kernel 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop MATE 
Distro Linux Mint 13 Maya

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Version 1.8.15, all operating systems.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dan...@the-beach.co on 12 Sep 2012 at 2:13

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
 Show inxi -Sxxx, extra data like mate or cinnamon show only with extra data, as the helm menu and documentation should show. 

As far as I know, neither mate nor cinnamon are currently actually identifiable 
using the xprop output that we use to see what desktop is running, but inxi 
does get that data later with the extra flags.

Now, you can upload the inxi debugger output: inxi -xx@14
for each desktop when it's running and inxi is run inside that desktop.

and I can see if there's anything there that requires adjusting, but this issue 
was fixed a while ago.

Original comment by inxi-...@techpatterns.com on 15 Sep 2012 at 11:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Alright, so I have the .tar.gz for cinnamon, I don't have MATE though. I took a 
look at the xprop_root.txt, and on the first line it mentions muffin 
(cinnamon's window manager), so shouldn't that be enough? Attaching it, even 
though it said it uploaded automatically.

inxi-rarity-all-20120915.tar.gz is the name.

Original comment by dan...@the-beach.co on 16 Sep 2012 at 3:56

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I've also had somebody running mate to run it as well. They reported the 
filename was: inxi-buntupc-all-20120915.tar.gz

Original comment by dan...@the-beach.co on 16 Sep 2012 at 3:57

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Turns out this is a valid issue, but it will require more information. 
Currently inxi checks this: $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID which is a gnome global, 
try it, do: 
echo $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID
and if you got some result, that is what inxi used to determine that you run 
gnome.

To handle the two sub cases of gnome, cinnamon and mate, would require changing 
that core identification method. 

I didn't see anything that identifies mate in xprop output for Mate, the 
cinnamon thing now that you identified it shows the one identifier, but I have 
no idea how to get the subsequent version information, or what to query from 
cinnamon to get its version information.

So there's a few things happening here, some easier than others to fix. I will 
need to find out how to query cinnamon for its version information however, ie, 
once inxi detects that it is a subset of gnome, cinnamon, it needs to kick in a 
different thing. Plus cinnamon as I understand it is in fact more of a wrapper 
for gnome 3 than an actual separate desktop, isn't that right?

And Mate, that is a different system so that's worth looking more at as a 
unique desktop, that is afterall an actual fork. Mate I have no information on 
at all, I saw nothing in the xprop data I received that id it as mate, but I 
could simply not know what to look for.

I attach the xprop file  in case someone knows what to look for.

But in both cinnamon and mate's case, I need to verify that 
$GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID
is either null or not null, since that is the test inxi currently uses to id 
gnome desktops. If mate and cinnamon are both not null, then I need to add in 
some sub logic to detect if either is running, and then I need to know what the 
version detection for mate and cinnamon are, ie, what is the command line 
command to get its version, like: cinnamon --version or whatever it is.

At that point it's not too hard for cinnamon, since I can simply do the xprop 
test for the muffin string and if present, report desktop as gnome 3 running 
cinnamon, or something.  But keep in mind, cinnamon is not really a complete 
desktop, or is it now? Mate is, so that would be good to get  id'ed correctly, 
but cinnamon seems to be more of a fix of gnome 3 than an actual desktop, so 
I'm not sure if inxi should id it as cinnamon over gnome 3.0 (cinnamon) for 
example.

Anyway, the issue is valid, thanks for following up.

Original comment by inxi-...@techpatterns.com on 16 Sep 2012 at 5:32

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Actually, Cinnamon is a gnome fork as well, and muffin is a fork of mutter. You 
may be thinking of the shell extensions that mint used for a release that more 
or less did the same thing. It's definitely a separate desktop at this point 
though.  

Now, `echo $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID` returns "this-is-deprecated". 

Getting the cinnamon version is as simple as running "cinnamon --version". 
Which, in my case returns "Cinnamon 1.5.8". 

I can't speak too much for MATE, as I don't run it, but I'm guessing since it's 
more or less just gnome 2 with a different name, it may be a bit harder to 
identify.

Anyways, thanks, if you need any more info, just let me know.

Original comment by dan...@the-beach.co on 16 Sep 2012 at 5:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
inxi 1.8.16 should have working cinnamon detection now on the primary -S level, 
and it's turned off as a secondary info output.

I hope this doesn't break older Mint cinnamon handling, but we'll see. 

I'm leaving Mate unhandled except for the -Sxxx output until enough data is 
collected to do that reliably. So this issue is half resolved now, or should be.

On the plus side, $GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID is deprecated, but still useful, so 
it's good to move away from depending on that for all gnome instances, over 
time inxi will adjust to whatever gnome presents in current versions while 
leaving the legacy  handling for old systems.

Original comment by inxi-...@techpatterns.com on 16 Sep 2012 at 6:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
That's wonderful, I'll try it out tomorrow, as I'm out of bandwidth for the
month. If you need input as far as MATE, I can find somebody on IRC to
help. But, thanks for fixing this, I love when developers are this
responsive towards bug reports/feature requests :D

Original comment by dan...@the-beach.co on 16 Sep 2012 at 10:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
MATE is now handled as well, it has an ID in xrpop too, _MARCO which is the 
renamed metacity window manager.

The version command is mate-about -v

Got that info from MATE irc support. So I think that closes this issue, unless 
there's a bug with it.

So now primary -S info should correctly show the forked new desktops Cinnamon 
and MATE. 

Unless there's a bug, of course.

Original comment by inxi-...@techpatterns.com on 17 Sep 2012 at 12:49