Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon DE

[gregzme17]

I'm submitting a ... (check one with "x")

[x] bug report
[ ] new distro request

Bug report

**This DE shows Gnome, but it should display Cinnamon.**
=> search Github for a similar issue or PR before submitting
=> download the latest revision from Github and check if the bug is still present
   -> https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/raw/master/screenfetch-dev
=> Show us the output of: screenfetch -v

:: Finding distro...found as 'Mint 21.2'
:: Finding hostname and user...found as 'pagandegree@PaganMint'
:: Finding kernel version...found as 'x86_64 Linux 6.2.0-37-generic'
:: Finding current uptime...found as '5h 9m'
:: Finding current package count...found as '2817'
:: Finding current shell...found as 'bash 5.1.16'
:: Finding current resolution(s)...found as '5760x1080'
:: Finding desktop environment...found as 'GNOME'
:: Finding window manager...found as 'Muffin'
:: Finding window manager theme...found as 'Mint-Y-Dark (Mint-Y)'
:: Finding GTK2 theme...found as 'Mint-Y-Aqua'
:: Finding GTK3 theme...found as 'Mint-Y-Aqua'
:: Finding icon theme...found as 'Mint-Y-Sand'
:: Finding user font...found as 'Ubuntu 10'
:: Finding current CPU...found as 'AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core @ 16x 4.2GHz'
:: Finding current disk usage...found as '5.2T / 13T (42%%)'
:: Finding current GPU...found as 'Radeon RX 7900 XTX (gfx1100, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.54, 6.2.0-37-generic)'
:: Finding current RAM usage...found as '6320MiB / 31794MiB'

New distro request

Distro name:
Homepage:
Distro logo:
Package manager:

Show us the output of
 => lsb_release -sirc
Linuxmint
21.2
victoria
 => cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Linux Mint"
VERSION="21.2 (Victoria)"
ID=linuxmint
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 21.2"
VERSION_ID="21.2"
HOME_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.linuxmint.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://linuxmint-troubleshooting-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
VERSION_CODENAME=victoria
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy
 => ls -1 /etc/*-release
/etc/lsb-release
/etc/os-release
/etc/upstream-release:
lsb-release

[Peter0x44]

Confirmed.

Neofetch reports this correctly btw

(I am using arch linux)

screenfetch:

           `/++++++++++++++:           DE: GNOME

neofetch:

          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`           DE: Cinnamon 6.0.4 

[3xploiton3]

another example:

[Peter0x44]

I think I figured out what is up here.

I did some investigation into how screenfetch gets this string and determines cinnamon.

The first is checking the output of xprop -root for "_MUFFIN"

                                        else if ($1 ~ /^_MUFFIN/) {
                                                de = "Cinnamon"
                                                exit
                                        }

On my system, this is not present.

Then, it moves on to checking the value of XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP:

                        if [ -n "${XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP}" ]; then
                                case "${XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP,,}" in

Which, in my case is X-Cinnamon, and it gets detected correctly from there

                                        'x-cinnamon')
                                                DE="Cinnamon"
                                                ;;

But the next if statement for the final fallback checks the following:

                        if [ -n "$DE" ]; then
                                # classic fallbacks

Which is a check for "$DE is not empty", which it won't be, because the previous check worked.

Actually, I'm pretty sure the contents of this if statement ALWAYS run, because "$DE" actually gets initialized to "Not Present"
Some more of the if statements further down seem to have the same problem.

If I change the condition of this if statement to what was on the previous one:

                if [[ ${DE} == "Not Present" ]]; then

Then screenfetch reports "DE: Cinnamon 6.0.4" as expected
I'm not sure why it's like this, but it seems like an oversight, and a pretty simple fix
Effectively, the result of the second attempted test to figure the DE is always discarded, due to some bad condition in the if statement.

[Peter0x44]

I would appreciate testing of this change.