Why is it so hard to write a gui script for multiple DE?

[Mark342]

kde = kwin

Galen

Kwin can be used in other DEs.
I suggest plasma-desktop or checking for the environment variable KDE_FULL_SESSION as I demonstrated earlier in this thread.

[travisN000]

I'm bringing this up again because often it is needed to ask for root access in a script. Now, almost all DE's have their own su - kdesu, gtksu and the way of logging a user out is different too,

how is it possible to determine what DE is currently -running- and then call the necessary su and logoff commands?

...it doesn't help with log-off, but consolehelper can be used to run a script instead of gksu/kdesu...  it avoids the need to determine which DE, and can even work without a DE...  (but the rest of the script might not )

more info here:
http://mypclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=2592.msg23434#msg23434

[pags]

Only tested with KDE and IceWM:

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ps aux | grep `whoami` | grep /start | grep -v grep

Needs to be tested on other DE's...

The `whoami` limits the results to the current user...works for multiple users on the same PC (just thinking, now...this would fail for multiple sessions for the same user on the same PC)...