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Re: check if X is running?



On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> I'd like to remove that check and make it a better one. Is checking
> for $DISPLAY sufficient?
> 

Why not just try to open the display, and if that fails bail out to text
mode? (Since $DISPLAY might be invalid, or there might be a -display
command line option overriding it, or whatever.)

Havoc





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