On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:48:28PM +0300, Carlos Barros wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
> > > There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> > > not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
> > > configuration situations that break the method.
> >
> > How about just checking for the existance of the DISPLAY variable?
> >
>
> What about trying to connext to X server, and if an error, do it in
> terminal mode.
Which would result in opening X connections when working on the
console. No, that's not funny, this already happened with urlview
here, not funny to wait for your browser/editor while it runs somewhere
on X.
Regards,
Joey
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