On Thursday 19 July 2001 04:26 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Dan Berdine wrote: > > Is there an environment variable in bash that can be used to tell > > where bash is running from? For example, is there a variable I can > > test in my .bashrc to tell whether I am running remotly, from a > > tty, from konsole, an xterm, etc.? I'v looked at the Advanced > > Scripting HOWTO, but the only thing that looked promising was > > "$BASH_ENV" which seems to be empty. > > I use the following script, which determines the appropriate value > for the DISPLAY variable (for the benefit of X apps) appropriately > according to how I'm accessing the system. It probably isn't perfect > (I'm sure if you have two monitors, it may screw up, or if you're on > a graphics terminal connected by a serial line, or some other unusual > connection), but it works for me. > This seems to work, but it doesn't really help me any.
Maybe I should give a little more background, tho some of the solutions given so far are basicly sufficient. There is a bug with AntiAliased fonts under KDE which causes things to look pretty nasty in Konsole sometimes. A workaround is to set QT_XFT=0 before launching Konsole so it doesn't use AA. However, then everything launched with Konsole will be without AA, so I want to add something in .bashrc that checks to see if I'm using Konsole (knowing I'm in X (:0.0) isn't enough, nor is knowing I'm in X on my local machine (I sometimes use Konsole remotely)) and if I am, sets QT_XFT=1, so AA gets turned back on and I can launch apps again. Its not that big of a deal, I jsut get a little error when I log on a tty or remotely without the check, but I'd rather get rid of it. I think I'v got it good enough now, tho. This is a hack, afterall, it doesn't have to be all that elegant... -Dan
