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From: dj@ctron.com (DJ Delorie)
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Subject: Re: Detecting user on Xterm or else.How ???
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Date: 3 Jun 91 13:42:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jun1.152202.12891@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, izar@shuldig.huji.ac.il (Izar Tarandach) writes:
> 	I'm writing a program that I'd like be able to check if a given user
> is in a X terminal or not - depending on the result, I'd send a message in
> written format or a X window - anybody knows a good way to do that ?

I've noticed that xterm sets the WINDOWID environment variable to the
window id of the window it uses - might be useful.

DJ
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