On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
> I'm trying to write a script in which a message is displayed by xmessage
> if X is running otherwise message is displayed by echo
>
> I tried this :
>
> if [ -f /tmp/.X0-lock ]
to test for the availability of X, look for the environment variable
called DISPLAY:
if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
xmessage message
else
echo message
fi
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