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From: Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:51:44
Message-Id: 20060801194312.GB4802@sympatico.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli by "John J. Foster"
1 060801 John J. Foster wrote:
2 > In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being run
3 > from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X?
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5 'echo $DISPLAY' returns ':0' from Konsole,
6 but nothing from a raw terminal called up via Ctl-Alt-F2 .
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