On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 20:23 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > Germán A. Racca wrote: > > How to know if I'm using an xterm or a gnome-terminal from command line? > > > > The output of "echo $TERM" is "xterm" from both of them. > > > > How to know? > > Well, it looks as though gnome-terminal sets $COLORTERM, whereas xterm > doesn’t. But xterm doesn’t unset it, either, so if you get a user > starting up a gnome-terminal, thinking “Yuck!”¹ and using that > gnome-terminal solely to run xterm, then the xterm will inherit the > $COLORTERM setting. > > Xterm has its own $XTERM_ variables, so you could test for those. But > gnome-terminal doesn’t unset those, either, so you could get a user > starting up am xterm, thinking “Yuck!”¹ and using that xterm solely to > run gnome-terminal… > > And then you’re going to get someone using Konsole. > > What are you trying to do? > > James. > > ¹There’s no accounting for taste… > > -- > E-mail: james@ | I must refute the rumour that one of our team members > aprilcottage.co.uk | walks on water. Although it’s true that Barry Cryer runs > | on lager... > | -- “I’m Sorry, I Haven’t A Clue”, BBC Radio 4 I'm running a program called IRAF to work with astronomical images, and it needs to use the graphic capabilities of an xterm, not gnome-terminal. So, I'm trying to make a very simple script to start IRAF, but first I have to know if I'm on an xterm (so it enters directly to IRAF) or a gnome-terminal (in this case the script must open an xterm before). Germán. -- Germán A. Racca National Institute for Space Research (INPE) São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil http://sites.google.com/site/gracca http://gracca.wordpress.com -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
