thanks to stefan for that answer! works great. though for fun, I'd still ike to know whether there's a way to contact the server directly to see whether it's REALLY running....
The simplest way to me is to write an X client program that just makes a connection, then disconnects. Something like this in fact:
#include <X11/Xlib.h> #define DISPLAY ":0.0"
int main(argc, argv) int argc; char **argv; {
exit(XOpenDisplay(DISPLAY) ? 0 : -1);
}Then cc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 xtest.c
Cheers, Dave
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