Re: Check if X is running

Somebody once said:
>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

>

Running on the system.

That is what I have been doing, checking if DISPLAY was empty, but now the DISPLAY variable is being set before X is started. I believe this recently changed when I migrated from vesafb to radoeonfb or the version of splashutils, but not sure.


Sometimes emerge -u world is a bit too powerful. ;)

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