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    It's not reliable because it only shows the installed session managers, not only the running one – and not all desktop environments actually have a matching *-session executable (as you noted for jwm), or any such program at all. Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 1:01
  • this gives me /usr/bin/byobu-select-session /usr/bin/dbus-run-session on a server system with no desktop environment installed at all
    – ssc
    Commented Feb 6, 2017 at 15:03