On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 13:05, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> 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 :)

heh.

> 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.

I see.

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