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From: rickg@toshiba.tic.oz.au (Rick Gunderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Determining if SunView is Running
Keywords: Windows
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Date: 21 Nov 90 14:30:23 GMT
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How can a process determine if the SunView window manager is running?

I want to do this because I want to have a process monitor that starts up
SunView and, when the monitor verifies that SunView is running, starts up
other processes that use SunView. It is easy enough to start up a process
that requires SunView by setting the ``WINDOW_PARENT'' and
``WIN_ENV_PLACEHOLDER'' variable correctly, but I need to make sure that
SunView is actually running first. 

What I want:

                                Process Monitor
                                       |
                      +------------+---+-----------+
                      |            |               |
                   SunView      Process A       Process B



The current situation:

                                    SunView
                                       |
                                       |
                                Process Monitor
                                       |
                              +--------+-------+
                              |                |
                           Process A        Process B


I don't want the Process Monitor to be a child of SunView, I want it to be
the parent.

I would prefer not to have to snoop through the process list to find out
if SunView is running; it would be nice if there was some kind of SunView
function call.

I'm pretty sure I could do this under OpenWindows (simply by trying to
establish a connection to the X server), but the first pass of this has to
be done under SunView.

Thanks in advance,

=                Rick Gunderson - Toshiba International Corp.                =
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