On Tue, 5 May 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> 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.
>
That would be my expectation as well.
As it turns out, thanks to some excellent help from Jim Mintha, I can now
build an ae.rc file that works both in the console and in the xterm. I
still have some details to work out, but the solution is complete at this
point.
I want to thank everyone who contributed ideas. You were all a great help
to someone out in the middle of nowhere. Much appreciated.
Luck,
Dwarf
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