On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 01:47:52AM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > hi > > i set the environmental variable below to dynamically change my xterm > window to title to the current working directory. > > export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]2;${USER}: ${PWD}\007"' > > this works really well when i login in X, but when i login from the > console my system beeps every time since \007 is the bell character. > is the a variable i can check that would tell me whether i'm running > from X or from the console, so i can conditionally set the > PROMPT_COMMAND variable? You can test whether DISPLAY is set: if [ -z $DISPLAY ] then echo "DISPLAY not set" else echo "DISPLAY is set" fi -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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