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
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