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Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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| Is there a way for a script (bash, for instance) to know |
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| if it's running under X, such as in an xterm or konsole? |
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| I want to have scripts that run graphical tools if the |
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| infrastructure is present, and text tools otherwise. |
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| For me this is particularly useful for tools I don't use |
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| all that often, and can forget that a graphical version |
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| exists. |
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One way to do it (though I don't know how to do this in Bash) is to check X's |
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Process ID (PID). If `pidof X` returns an integer, than that's the PID of the |
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currently running X server. If X is not running it will return an empty string. |
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/home/peter $ pidof X |
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12521 |
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/home/peter $ pidof non-running-app |
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/home/peter $ |
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Hope this helps! |
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