This crate helps you to detect the current desktop environment. It was inspired by the detectDE function from xdg-util.

Run the following command in your project:

cargo add detect-desktop-environment

use detect_desktop_environment::DesktopEnvironment;

fn main() {
    match DesktopEnvironment::detect() {
        Some(de) => println!("detected desktop environment: {de:?}"),
        None => println!("failed to detect desktop environment"),
    }
}

This library exposes two symbols: the detect function and it returns value: the DesktopValue enum. All the variants are listed below in the "Supported environments" section.

Name	Thumbnail
Cinnamon
Cosmic
Enlightenment
Gnome
Kde
Lxde
Lxqt
MacOs
Mate
Unity
Windows
Xfce

See docs.rs/detect-desktop-environment.

This library is stable and no major changes are expected.

If you want to improve the library, feel free to open an issue or send a PR. Breaking changes are allowed. Note however that review times may be slow.

The last 8 stable versions are explicitly supported (1 year). See Cargo.toml for details.

MIT