On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 13:28:02 +0100 (+0100), Stephen Pelc wrote:
> Under Kubuntu 9.04 at least, trying to open /dev/tty succeeds in
> both cases and fds 0,1,2 return true from isatty(). Similarly,
> ttyname() returns a name.
Hmm, that was going to be my suggestion. Perhaps you could see wheth
Adam Sweet wrote:
>
> It must be time of year for damaged laptop GPUs. My Dell XPS laptop has
> just started corrupting output to screen (green pixel streaks on the
> BIOS, bootloader, boot splash and GUI and flashing white blocky
> corruption on a physical tty). X on Ubuntu fails repeatedly to
Stephen Pelc wrote:
> Thank you for answering a question I didn't ask!
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Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/9/27 AdamC :
>> This weekend, the problems have started again. This time the machine
>> boots, I can see BIOS and grub loading, but it is split six ways across the
>> screen and corrupted. I've even had it once where it booted with a
>> good screen to
Have you tried attachi
Vic said
> > I need to determine if my Linux program is running detached,
> > e.g. if it was launched by
> > vfxlin
> > or
> > vfxlin &
>
> VFX isn't too keen on not having a console...
>
> What I did was to run it through screen :-
Thank you for answering a question I didn't ask! The curre
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> I need to determine if my Linux program is running detached,
> e.g. if it was launched by
> vfxlin
> or
> vfxlin &
VFX isn't too keen on not having a console...
What I did was to run it through screen :-
screen -dmS vfx vfxlinux
Then you can get to the (unattended) console with:
scr
