bash script help

[James Knott]

There's an OpenOffice quick launch in SuSE 9.1.  It's a *LOT* faster 
loading now.


Noah John Gellner wrote:
> I am using a script to preload openoffice so that it starts more
> quickly. The script works very well except that when I exit X to get to
> the console the script keeps running and outputting messages to the
> display reporting that no display is found. 
> 
> I am hoping that someone can tell me how to modify the script to test if
> X is running, and if not to terminate the loop. 
> 
> The script comes from the Gentoo forums and has two parts
> 
> Part one is called by Gnome Sessions:
> 
> ## killing all traces of openoffice
> killall -9 ooresident
> killall -9 soffice.bin
> 
> ## waiting for them to really dissapear (can even take a sec or 2
> depending
> ## on the busy-ness and speed of your system)
> sleep 1
> 
> ## the actual keepalive is called in the bg
> ooresident &
> 
> Part two, called oowresident, is obviously called by part one:
> #!/bin/bash
> killall -9 soffice.bin ## just in case....
> i=0
> while [ $i -eq 0 ]
> echo $i
> do
> {
>       dummy=`ooffice -plugin -quickstart ;`
>       i=$?
>       echo $i
>       echo "OpenOffice was unloaded. Loading it again..."
> }
> done
> 			
> Beside the problem with the script not terminating with X, it works
> really well, shorting OO startup times to a few seconds.
> 
> Help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Noah

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