Two simple QQ about XWin

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

> Q2. I've compared
> 
>     $ set > vars.list
> 
> both when XWin is running and when not, expecting a small difference in env
> vars (or something). But all that has changed are PIDs. I want to be able to
> query the O/S to ask whether X is running or not. Is there a way of doing
> this, please? Apart from say ps -a | grep XWin. Thank you!

xdpyinfo >/dev/null 2>&1  || echo false

bye
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