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WIP: attempt to detect DE on remote sessions #2449
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When connecting with ssh to a machine that has an X11 session running, try to find which DISPLAY we can query. It only detects the DE for now.
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I noticed this video mentioning neofetch didn't detect desktops remotely via ssh, so I had a try at it. |
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Description
When connecting with ssh to a machine that has an X11 session running, try to find which DISPLAY we can query.
Features
It only detects the DE for now.
Issues
The
KDE_SESSION_VERSIONproperty doesn't seem to exist on my session, so I had to check another one which doesn't mention the version.TODO
Reuse the found
DISPLAYto detect other components?