Getting a compositor display name?

[Jonas Ådahl]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 11:00:05AM +0000, Simon Ser wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:11 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > However, my fear with adding such information is that then clients
> > might start adding conditional code paths based on the Wayland
> > compositor name or version, which is an incorrect approach. Client
> > behaviour that depends on the particular compositor must be keyed by
> > the available global Wayland interfaces and their versions, not by the
> > compositor identity.
> >
> > OTOH, Wayland is a few years old by now and developers should have
> > learnt better, so maybe that fear is no longer relevant.
> 
> I share this fear as well. IMHO `ps` is good enough. You could
> also use something like `lsof /dev/dri/card0` to get the DRM
> master.

There is also $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP specified in the
desktop-entry-spec[0].


Jonas

[0] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html

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