[vox-tech] bash question

[Matt Roper]

If you aren't using X forwarding (i.e. ssh -X), I think you could check
to see if $DISPLAY is set...

    if [ "${DISPLAY}" != "" ]; then
       shopt -s checkwinsize
       xmodmap -e "remove Lock = Caps_Lock"
    fi


Matt


On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:55:42AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i have an xmodmap that i'd like to be run when the shell is executed
> from a non-login shell under X.
> 
> i thought it would be something like:
> 
>    if [ "${TERM}" == "xterm" ]; then
>       shopt -s checkwinsize
>       xmodmap -e "remove Lock = Caps_Lock"
>    fi
> 
> but this suffers from ${TERM} being "xterm" when i ssh in from another
> machine running X.
> 
> how can i test for "if this shell is being run from X server running on
> a THIS machine"?
> 
> pete

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