Does GNOME provide a CLI method of acquiring the environment information?

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Thread Solution

I see no evidence that GNOME provides this.

Workaround

Since we’ve spent so much time discussing tangential alternatives, I’ll solve that discussion by stating that I’ve since ascertained that fastfetch is the solution: [1]

Features

  1. It’s DE-agnostic,

  2. fast (it’s C), and

  3. provides what kinfo does.

Additionally, for me, it being available in PMOS matters:

fairphone-fp4:~$ fastfetch
                 /\                     user@fairphone-fp4
                /  \                    ------------------
               /    \                   OS: postmarketOS v25.06 aarch64
              /      \                  Host: Fairphone 4
             /        \                 Kernel: Linux 6.15.0
            /          \                Uptime: 2 hours, 9 mins
            \           \               Packages: 1141 (apk), 5 (flatpak)
          /\ \____       \              Shell: ash 1.37.0
         /  \____ \       \             Display (Built-in display): 1080x2340 @ 60 Hz (as 360x780) in 6"
        /       /  \       \            WM: Mutter (Wayland)
       /       /    \    ___\           Terminal: /dev/pts/1
      /       /      \  / ____          CPU: sm7225 (8) @ 2.21 GHz
     /       /        \/ /    \         GPU: Qualcomm Turnip Adreno (TM) 619 [Integrated]
    /       / __________/      \        Memory: 1.00 GiB / 7.23 GiB (14%)
   /        \ \                 \       Swap: 0 B / 1.81 GiB (0%)
  /          \ \                 \      Disk (/): 8.92 GiB / 218.28 GiB (4%) - ext4
 /           / /                  \     Local IP (wlan0): 192.168.1.177/24
/___________/ /____________________\    Locale: C

  1. reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1cga3q4/comment/n2q6n3f ↩︎

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