Miscellaneous Utilities
Miscellaneous Utilities
These are portable utility functions.
Application Name and Environment
- g_get_application_name()
- g_set_application_name()
- g_get_prgname()
- g_set_prgname()
- g_get_environ()
- g_environ_getenv()
- g_environ_setenv()
- g_environ_unsetenv()
- g_getenv()
- g_setenv()
- g_unsetenv()
- g_listenv()
- g_get_user_name()
- g_get_real_name()
System Directories
- g_get_user_cache_dir()
- g_get_user_data_dir()
- g_get_user_config_dir()
- g_get_user_state_dir()
- g_get_user_runtime_dir()
- g_get_user_special_dir()
- g_get_system_data_dirs()
- g_get_system_config_dirs()
- g_reload_user_special_dirs_cache()
OS Info
Information about the current OS can be retrieved by calling
g_get_os_info() and passing it one of the following keys (this list may
grow in future):
- G_OS_INFO_KEY_NAME
- G_OS_INFO_KEY_PRETTY_NAME
- G_OS_INFO_KEY_VERSION
- G_OS_INFO_KEY_VERSION_CODENAME
- G_OS_INFO_KEY_VERSION_ID
- G_OS_INFO_KEY_ID
- G_OS_INFO_KEY_HOME_URL
- G_OS_INFO_KEY_DOCUMENTATION_URL
- G_OS_INFO_KEY_SUPPORT_URL
- G_OS_INFO_KEY_BUG_REPORT_URL
- G_OS_INFO_KEY_PRIVACY_POLICY_URL
Paths
- g_get_host_name()
- g_get_home_dir()
- g_get_tmp_dir()
- g_get_current_dir()
- g_canonicalize_filename()
- g_path_is_absolute()
- g_path_skip_root()
- g_path_get_basename()
- g_path_get_dirname()
- g_build_filename()
- g_build_filenamev()
- g_build_filename_valist()
- g_build_path()
- g_build_pathv()