[texdoc] [tex-live] Desktop environment and texdoc viewers

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 01:42:46AM +0100, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> PS: for those interested in the details, the detection method is slightly
> adapted from the one in xdg-open from freedesktop.org, using:
> - KDE_SESSION_VERSION to detect KDE4 (or greater...)
> - KDE_FULL_SESSION for other KDE
> - GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID for gnome
> - looking for "xfce4" in the output of 'xprop -root _DT_SAVE_MODE' (if xprop is
> found) for xfce.

Out of curiosity, why don't you simply use xdg-open if it existed?
(assuming it isn't already the case)

Regards,
 Khaled


-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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