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Is there a way to retrieve the name of the Desktop Environment?

The title is quite exhaustive: is there a way to retrieve the desktop environment name (e.g. Gnome, Unity, XFCE, LXDE, KDE...) from the command line or using Python?
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CentOS: Alert all desktop users from comand-line

Can someone tell me if there is an way to notify all online (Desktop) users from command-line. I know that if I want that I get notifyed when something is done, I just do like this: sudo apt-get ...