how to know if I'm using xterm or gnome-terminal?

Germán A. Racca german.racca at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 19:52:32 UTC 2010


Hi all:

How to know if I'm using an xterm or a gnome-terminal from command line?

The output of "echo $TERM" is "xterm" from both of them.

How to know?

Cheers,
Germán.
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National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
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