GLib.get_user_name
Description: Reference for GLib.get_user_name

### Function

# GLibget_user_name

since: 2.0

#### Declaration

    const gchar*
    g_get_user_name (
      void
    )

#### Description

Gets the user name of the current user. The encoding of the returned string is system-defined. On UNIX, it might be the preferred file name encoding, or something else, and there is no guarantee that it is even consistent on a machine. On Windows, it is always UTF-8.

Available since: 2.0

#### Return value

Type: `const gchar*`

The user name of the current user.

The data is owned by the called function.
The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.