On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, MB wrote: >How does one check the version of the various items of software running on >one's Linux platform, like Xfree86 etc ?
xdpyinfo gives the version of the running X server on the display that you are looking at, whereas "X -version" gives the version number of the X server 'installed' on the computer you have a shell on. If the X server and the shell on the computer are one and the same machine, these two versions generally will match unless you have some customized multiple X server installation or something else funky. Other commands may use commandline switches such as -version, --version, -v, -V, --help or similar. Check the documentation for a given command to see if it has a method to display it's version number. Most applications do, however there is no one method that works with all software. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
