Detect Desktop Environment

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

Installation

Run the following command in your project:

cargo add detect-desktop-environment

Usage

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.

Supported environments

Name	Thumbnail
Cinnamon
Cosmic
Cosmic Epoch
Dde
Ede
Endless
Enlightenment
Gnome
Hyprland
Kde
Lxde
Lxqt
MacOs
Mate
Old
Pantheon
Razor
Rox
Sway
Tde
Unity
Windows
Xfce

Documentation

See docs.rs/detect-desktop-environment.

Maintenance status

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.

Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV) policy

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

License

MIT