Re: How to discover which wm is running

Peter Gordon wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 16:18 -0300, Gustavo FeijГі wrote:
I'm trying to find out a way to discover, under a shell script, which
window manager is running.

I suppose you could use the 'xlsclients' utility and grep for known WM
names; but that would be a huge kludge. :/
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ps aux ?
What are you trying to achieve after all ?

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