Also, I thought Neofetch just always interpreted River as Sway, but I've now seen people's Neofetch screenshots saying River. How do I get Neofetch to tell I'm using River not Sway?
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To determine the current WM in Wayland, neofetch first tries getting the process connected to the current Wayland display. If that fails, it checks all running processes against a hardcoded list of known WMs (which includes river).
In practice, it seems to prefer the value of XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, but idrk, neofetch is magic.
You might've seen people use fastfetch, which should just get it right, but is also magic, tho at least c and not bash.