Inxi reports Unity as Gnome

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run inxi -S

What is the expected output? 
System:    Host: xps Kernel: 3.13.0-1-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Unity 
Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty

What do you see instead?
System:    Host: xps Kernel: 3.13.0-1-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome 
Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty

What version of the product are you using? 
$ inxi -V
inxi 1.9.17-00 (2013-12-02)

On what operating system?
Ubuntu 14.04 trusty

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tsdg...@gmail.com on 9 Jan 2014 at 12:43

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I have not received any data files that let me identify wayland.

Please run inxi with this command on a wayland system:

inxi -xx@14

to send me a full system data output.

Also, send any relevant output from wayland itself thazt could be used to 
identify it.

I've never seen any wayland output since it's almost barely out of alpha dev 
stages, so I don't know what data it offers or how to access any of that data, 
but some of the desktop stuff in -xx@14 may help spot it.

This is marked as an enhancement since wayland is a new system and I have no 
data on it or how to use it in terms of collecting data.

Original comment by inxi-...@techpatterns.com on 10 Jan 2014 at 5:58

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Unity has nothing to do with wayland, it runs on regular X11.

BTW you should put more warnings saying that command is going to send all the 
data of my system me to you, that felt pretty nasty to be honest.

Anyway you probably just want to have a look at the
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity
envvar

Original comment by tsdg...@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2014 at 9:04

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Sorry, mental glitch, mir/unity, wayland etc, all mixed together in my head as 
stuff not quite ready for prime time...

If the envvar is set it's easy, next I need to know how to get the version of 
unity:

ie, the command: unity --version or unity -v or however one gets unity version. 
No gui methods can be used, of course.

and also, assuming it's: unity --version

then: unity --version || echo yes

If it shows 'yes', then it's output to stderr.

The latter is because a handful of desktops put the version info out into 
stderr, for some inexplicable reason, so inxi needs to know that.

The output data is not very interesting unless you are making something like 
inxi, it's just tech specs of the system, and shortens my debugging time by 
about 50x in many cases since I don't have to ask for various files, then wait 
to get them, or not.

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is not currently used at all in inxi, that must be some 
newish thing, I'll have to look into what is identifying itself with that. 
Looks like new kde's are, that's nice to see. Though just the basic string: 
KDE. Would be nice if all desktops used that, I'll it to the inxi debugging 
output data collection and see what shows up.

Original comment by inxi-...@techpatterns.com on 13 Jan 2014 at 7:04

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Oh, I forgot, what toolkit, if any, does unity use? inxi shows the toolkit, if 
available, like gtk, qt, etc, at least if it can find the data, as well.

Don't worry about the debugger data, only inxi devs, mostly me, see that, it's 
not public.

Original comment by inxi-...@techpatterns.com on 13 Jan 2014 at 7:07

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version 1.9.18 should now support unity, plus it shows default runlevel, and 
should show gtk version of desktop toolkit better too, though that will never 
be perfect.

Surprisingly few user systems show that env variable set for desktop, kde does, 
lxde does, unity does, and that's all I know about at this point, xfce does 
not, gnome does not, and the smaller window managers don't, except lxde for 
some reason. I'm assuming that some will use it more in the future, so I'll 
track that.

I'm closing this, so if there is an issue, file a new issue report.

Original comment by inxi-...@techpatterns.com on 13 Jan 2014 at 11:08

• Changed state: Done

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Actually you did 
        elif [[ $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP == 'UNITY' ]];then
which should be
        elif [[ $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP == 'Unity' ]];then

Original comment by tsdg...@gmail.com on 14 Jan 2014 at 8:43

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So I did, must be a subconscious thing. I have now updated inxi but there's no 
new version number, but there is a new tarball with the fixed Unity.

Original comment by inxi-...@techpatterns.com on 14 Jan 2014 at 6:49