wineconsole: command line option output / configurable default backend

Ekkehard Morgenstern ekkehard.morgenstern at onlinehome.de
Wed Aug 9 04:27:23 CDT 2006


Alexandre Julliard wrote:

>
>I don't think that's an improvement, please let's not add more obscure
>environment variables. You should try to use the user backend when the
>X display is available and fall back to curses otherwise.
>
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How should I check if the X Display is available?

The DISPLAY environment variable doesn't suffice for that. It might be 
set, but the connection might be unavailable anyway. Or some user that 
doesn't have X Windows might use the DISPLAY variable for something 
else. Not a good idea IMO.







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