Re: Am I running under X?

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 address@hidden wrote:

> How can I tell if I'm running under X in a shell script?  If I'm in X, I
> want to start screen:  screen -m -c /my/config/file.  If I'm not under X,
> I want to start without the -m.  It's an odd google to find the answer to
> this question, so your wisdom is appreicated.

Check for the DISPLAY variable?

-Dan


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