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

[Germán A. Racca]

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 12:15 -0800, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> Run
> 
> ps axlw | grep term
> 
> This will show you which one you are running
> 
> Paolo

But if there are several xterms and gnome-terminals running, I'll get
them all. Which I want to know is the one I'm using.

Germán.

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Germán A. Racca
> <german.racca at gmail.com> wrote:
>         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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