diff --git a/inxi b/inxi
index 7a982a3..81a558e 100755
--- a/inxi
+++ b/inxi
@@ -2699,6 +2699,7 @@ get_de_version()
 	/'$2'/ {
 		gsub(",","",$0) # xfce output has , in it, so dump all commas
 		print $'$3'
+		exit # so that only first match runs
 	}' )
 
 	echo $version