Dave Howorth wrote:
thanks dave, that's very cool. now... I don't program in c. would it be easy to modify this program in two ways:know whether there's a way to contact the server directly to see whether it'sREALLY running....The simplest way to me is to write an X client program that just makes a connection, then disconnects. Something like this in fact:#include <X11/Xlib.h> #define DISPLAY ":0.0" int main(argc, argv) int argc; char **argv; { exit(XOpenDisplay(DISPLAY) ? 0 : -1); } Then cc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 xtest.c Cheers, Dave
1) pass the display number as a parameter2) print or return a specific error message if the connection is not accepted?
Matt