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Useful for future googlers - returns "Unity" on ubuntu 13.10 (not gnome)
– Andrew M
Commented May 14, 2014 at 10:35
@AndrewM: makes sense to me, Unity isn't exactly Gnome. And thanks for the info!
– Violet Giraffe
Commented May 14, 2014 at 12:19
Agree with @AndrewM, the other command-line solutions give gnome but I am running Unity and this works for me.
– melston
Commented Jun 17, 2017 at 15:31
Works on KDE and GNOME :-)
– Tinmarino
Commented Jul 15, 2020 at 13:12
worked for me in ubuntu 18.04 running in a Lenovo ThinkPad
– Andre Leon Rangel
Commented Dec 13, 2020 at 5:47

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