On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Hans-Peter Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 February 2011, 17:57:01 mw wrote: >> import os >> os.name >> >> http://docs.python.org/library/os.html >> >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:51 AM, todd rme <[email protected]> > wrote: >> > Is there any way inside pyqt, or in python, to determine what >> > platform you are using? Specifically, I want to know if the widget >> > is done in x11. I don't think I can check for x11 environment >> > variables since I at least think mac can have x11 installed without >> > using it for Qt. I need to know if the actual pyqt4 window is >> > using X11. > > Just try to instantiate e.g. QtGui.QX11Info(), it will throw an > NameError exception, if this platform isn't X11 aware. This call will > succeed even if X isn't running, btw. You might check that with > QtGui.QX11Info.appRootWindow(). > > This procedure will fail, it somebody builds PyQt with a X11 disabled > Qt, but that's pretty unlikely.. > > Pete >
I will try that, thanks. -Todd _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
