[Tutor] *nix-specific Python Scripting

[Roel Schroeven]

William O'Higgins wrote:
> It is a simple check to see if the X server is running (this is
> inelegant, but it works - if you have a better way, I'd love to know
> about it, but I would like to be able to do things like this in Python -
> so I might better write scripts with it).

Checking for startx doesn't work if the server is started via xdm (or 
kdm or gdm). Another solution would be to check for the DISPLAY 
environment variable, though that solution has problems of it's own.

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Roel Schroeven