Hey! Did you see what David Pounder wrote on May 14 ?
DP> Is it possible for a shell script to be able to determine whether it
DP> has been invoked from within X (either from a shell window or a KDE
DP> link) or from a text console.
Just test for the presence of the environment variable $DISPLAY.
If your script is callled from withing X then $DISPLAY will have a value.
You could test it like this:
if [ $DISPLAY ]; then
echo "We are in X"
else
echo "We are in Console"
fi
Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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If at first you don't succeed, port it to Windows.
