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From: "Charles Wilson"
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin.applications
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 8:54 PM
Subject: ITP: checkx-0.1.0-1
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...
Now you have 5 votes:
Eric Blake
Dr. Volker Zell
Yaakov S
John Morrison
Peter Ekberg
So you can try uploading again.
