Is KDE running?

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Sun Nov 9 20:45:17 GMT 2003


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On Sat November 01 2003 15:33, John MacMillan wrote:
> What's the right way for a script to tell if KDE is up and running, ideally
> that works with older versions and is likely to work with upcoming ones?
> Eg. is there an environment variable, or a command that will succeed/fail?

	if dcop kdesktop > /dev/null 2> /dev/null; then echo KDE is running; fi

Cheers,
Waldo
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