On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:02:14PM -0700, Jared Anderson wrote:
> Just curious of the most effective way to determine if X is running in
> a shell script. I have used a few ugly methods of such, but they are
> ugly: the most recent is no longer effective while using radeonfb
> driver and splashutils. Any useful input would be appreciated!!
Do you mean running on the system, or if the script is being run under
X? If it's the latter, try something like this:
if [ ! -z "$DISPLAY" ]
then
# X is running
else
# X is not running
fi
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