to shell (and X window System) wizards.


would this works, say in .zlogin, to say that X is up:

if [ -e /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 ]
then
echo "X is up."
exit 0;
else
echo "No X yet"
exit 1;
fi

or is there something more clever?

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