is there a xfce version file?

Jerry3904 · 2013-11-09 13:09:00

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For use with conky, is there a file that contains the current xfce version number? I looked in /etc for a version file, but didn't find anything. Where does xfce-about get its info?

TIA

xfce 4.10 with xubuntu 13.10

Last edited by Jerry3904 (2013-11-09 13:37:35)

ToZ · 2013-11-09 13:37:19

Hello and welcome to the Xfce forums.

xfce4-about -V

will display what you're looking for. For Conky, perhaps something like:

xfce4-about -V | head -1 | sed -e 's/xfce4-about //g'

Jerry3904 · 2013-11-09 13:44:41

Thanks for the quick reply! That works in the terminal, now need to figure out how to do it in conky.

Great desktop BTW...

ToZ · 2013-11-09 14:30:01

now need to figure out how to do it in conky.

How about something like:

${exec xfce4-about -V | head -1 | sed -e 's/xfce4-about //g'}

Jerry3904 · 2013-11-09 14:53:34

I'll give it a try, thanks.

gnome_refugee · 2013-11-10 06:58:00

ToZ wrote:

For Conky, perhaps something like:
xfce4-about -V | head -1 | sed -e 's/xfce4-about //g'

Why "sed -e", which points to a source for sed actions? sed 's/xfce4-about //g' works fine.

ToZ · 2013-11-10 14:41:05

gnome_refugee wrote:

ToZ wrote:
For Conky, perhaps something like:
xfce4-about -V | head -1 | sed -e 's/xfce4-about //g'
Why "sed -e", which points to a source for sed actions? sed 's/xfce4-about //g' works fine.

True (bad habits?). You can also use cut:

xfce4-about -V | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f2-

gnome_refugee · 2013-11-10 19:49:02

Thanks, I was just curious...

ozjd · 2013-11-11 03:09:58

ToZ wrote:

You can also use cut:
xfce4-about -V | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f2-

Thanks for that. I've been wondering if it was possible but never got around to looking into it. I wasn't aware of the -V option.

BTW I thought the whole output was repetitive so just use

xfce4-about -V | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f2

which just shows '4.10.0'.

TuxLyn · 2013-11-13 15:53:49

You can try this.

 xfce4-about -V | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'

ozjd · 2013-11-14 02:31:23

TuxLyn wrote:

You can try this.

 xfce4-about -V | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'

Yes that's another way of doing it, produces the same output so just as acceptable.

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