On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:00:36AM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Timo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
>> graphical box for root-password.
>
> This is the sort of thing that I meant about modern Unices messing
> things up. Why on earth should anyone need a user environment
> specific su box. That should
"Timo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
Well, my program needs a text-editor
OK, That should be determined by checking the VISUAL environment
variable which is the standard Unix value that a user should set to
determine their preferred visual (ie full screen) text editor.
The EDITOR environrnent vari
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Timo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your explanation. Apparently it's not possible to detect it
> in all cases, but it would be nice to detect it for regular users, so
> people who have a default install.
>
> Well, my program needs a text-editor and a graph
Thanks for your explanation. Apparently it's not possible to detect it
in all cases, but it would be nice to detect it for regular users, so
people who have a default install.
Well, my program needs a text-editor and a graphical box for
root-password. So it checks for the desktop environment so it
"Timo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
Hello all, in my program I need to know what desktop environment the
user is running.
A few years ago I would have said that meant you had a broken
design since it was very bad practice for any program to depend
on the users environment. nfortunately recent dev
