checkX is a little utility I wrote that tests to see if (a) the X11
client DLLs are installed on the machine, and (b) the Xserver on
$DISPLAY (or -d x.x.x.x:x) is running and usable.
It does not link against the Xll libraries itself, but attempts to
dlopen it, using a fuzzy name/path search. Both the search path and the
target name are explicitly over-ridable via commandline arguments.
In its default mode, checkX returns a 0 status if X is present, 1
otherwise, and generates no output. It is intended for use in scripts,
which need to intelligently decide whether to launch an X-based
application or a non-X (native MS Gui? console?) one.
The source code isn't pretty, but it works pretty well; I've been trying
to break it for a while now. First "published" here:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-03/msg00148.html
but I decided to make it into its own package rather than tack it on to
rxvt-unicode-X or cygutils. It's even autotooled...not that it can
actually be BUILT on any platform except cygwin. <g>
checkx does not yet have a home for ongoing development, save my hard
drive, so there's no "upstream" site, and obviously there are no Linux
distributions which include it. Therefore, I need some votes in favor...
=============================================================================
checkX determines if X is installed and Xserver is running
returns 0 if yes, nonzero otherwise
Options:
-h|--help : prints this help message
-d|--display STR : use STR instead of $DISPLAY
-l|--location : print location of Xlib DLL on stdout
-a|--appendpath STR : append STR to value of $PATH (cumulative)
-p|--prependpath STR : prepend STR to value of $PATH (cumulative)
-r|--replacepath STR : use STR instead of $PATH when searching
-x|--xlibname STR : use exactly STR instd of fuzzy cygX11-*.dll
-t|--timeout FLT : allow FLT seconds to connect with Xserver
defaults to 0.5, use 0.0 for Xlib's (safe, 12s)
timeout
--notty : disable stderr messages
--debug : turn on debugging messages
--no-silent : allow error, warning, and info messages
Note that -a defaults to '/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin'. To eliminate the
default, use '-a ""'
=============================================================================
setup.hint:
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category: Utils
requires: cygwin
sdesc: "checks to see if Xserver is usable"
ldesc: "A quick-n-dirty utility to check if X is installed on the
machine and if the Xserver is running. checkX is silent
by default (unless configured with --disable-silent), and
all it does is return a status (0 or 1). There are no popups
or stderr messages.
checkX attempts to dynamically load the X11 DLL in order
to contact the Xserver; therefore this package does not
explicitly depend on the X DLLs."
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http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/checkx.hint
http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/checkx-0.1.0-1-src.tar.bz2
http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/checkx-0.1.0-1.tar.bz2
--
Chuck
P.S. For some reason I can only intermittently ssh to my
cygutils.fruitbat.org site -- and the last time I tried to do so, it
apparently took down the httpd server, too. I'm pretty sure that's not
an "scp + cygwin" problem. <g>
So, this ITP is hosted at an alternate location.
