reset/terminate problems; preventing multiple XWin instance

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 cygwinx2eran@tromer.org wrote:

> On 2004-03-04 18:02, Takuma Murakami wrote:
> 
> > > Perhaps there should be a switch that says "if the display already
> > > exists, exit silently".
> > I agree.  We should have an option like "-silent" or "-quiet".
> 
> That's not quite it -- I want to ignore a "display already exists"
> error, but if some other fatal error prevents XWin from loading I want
> to know about it (say, via the dialog box).

The do something like this:

export DISPLAY=:0
if ! xdpyinfo >/dev/null 2>&1; then
	XWin $DISPLAY $options
fi
xterm

bye
	ago
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