On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 14:05:07 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Otavio Salvador, le Fri 25 Feb 2011 13:01:59 +0000, a écrit : > > if pidof X > /dev/null; then > > echo "X is running" > > else > > echo "X isn't running" > > fi > > Errr, surely not :) > > What Anton wants is to know whether X is currently at the front or not. > And you can't rely on DISPLAY being set (since you could be from sudo su > -), and you can't rely on stdin being the VT (since you could be from > screen). At best you could test whether the console is in text or > graphical mode. > Why "at best"? It sounds like checking whether the active VT is in KD_TEXT is exactly what's needed here.
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