Otavio Salvador, le Fri 25 Feb 2011 13:01:59 +0000, a écrit :
> if pidof X > /dev/null; then
>     echo "X is running"
> else
>     echo "X isn't running"
> fi

Errr, surely not :)

What Anton wants is to know whether X is currently at the front or not.
And you can't rely on DISPLAY being set (since you could be from sudo su
-), and you can't rely on stdin being the VT (since you could be from
screen). At best you could test whether the console is in text or
graphical mode.

Samuel



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