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How to have script detect if terminal emulator is running in a desktop session or not?
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This is what I’ve been using:
# $TERM variable may be missing when called via desktop shortcut
CurrentTERM=$(env | grep TERM)
if [[ $CurrentTERM == "" ]] ; then
notify-send --urgency=critical "$0 cannot be run from GUI without TERM environment variable."
exit 1
fi
The reason for this code was this question: Desktop shortcut to Bash script crashes and burns
You can modify it to look like this:
# $TERM variable may be missing when called via desktop shortcut
CurrentTERM=$(env | grep TERM)
if [[ $CurrentTERM == "" ]] ; then
nano ...
else
gedit ...
fi