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From: theo@rascal.UUCP (T. Kramer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: UNIX/X-windows questions
Message-ID: <1441@rascal.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 91 17:37:28 GMT
References: <139@bwilab3.UUCP>
Reply-To: theo@rascal.UUCP (T. Kramer)
Organization: Rascal Systems
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In article <139@bwilab3.UUCP> chris@bwilab3.UUCP (Chris Curtin) writes:
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>
>I have two simple questions, both of which deal with X windows. (One has
>to do with UNIX enviornment variables, so the cross post).
>
>Now the X question:
>
>Is there a call to see if we are in X? I would rather not do a simple call
>and see if it fails since this is a hack and doesn't look too good.
>
How about setting an environment variable eg. TERM=xterm  for the X logins
and TERM=vt100 for character based terminal logins. You of course have to
know which tty lines support X terminals and which do not.

Then using the following on startup

if (!strcmp("xterm",getenv("TERM")))
  XtInitialise(); /* Xt Intrinsic call */
else
  initscr();      /* Curses call */

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