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| From: | Wonko@wonkology.org (Alex Schuster) | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli | ||
| Date: | Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:13:58 | ||
| Message-Id: | 9z2ElB3ed8B@wonkology.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli by "John J. Foster" |
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| 1 | John writes: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being |
| 4 | > run from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X? |
| 5 | |
| 6 | You can check the existance of the DISPLAY environment variable: |
| 7 | |
| 8 | if [[ $DISPLAY ]] |
| 9 | then |
| 10 | echo "We're running under X" |
| 11 | else |
| 12 | echo "No X running." |
| 13 | fi |
| 14 | |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Alex |
| 17 | -- |
| 18 | gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |