check if X is running?
Can anyone suggest a good way to tell if the user is running a program from X?
A program I maintain can run in terminal or graphical mode. It currently
checks if graphics are available by comparing $TERM to a string
included at compile time. That's "xterm" by default, which doesn't work
on Debian because of "xterm-debian", and doesn't work in rxvt either.
I'd like to remove that check and make it a better one. Is checking
for $DISPLAY sufficient?
Hamish
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