Checking whether a script can open a display?

[William O'Higgins]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:24:36PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote:
>On March 1, 2005 09:10 pm, William O'Higgins wrote:
>
>> >What window manager do you run? ?I suspect many wm have the capability to
>> >rotate backdrops at set intervals (kde's wm does).
>>
>> I run OpenBox, and as far as I know they don't build that in, because
>> there are many "right" ways to do it, and because it is not (as they
>> (and I)) define it the window manager's job. ?KDE is attempting to be
>> all things to all people, and so that is built in.
>
>Then why not just call your script within your X startup?  The script can 
>sleep for however long you want to keep the same backdrop and then change it, 
>repeat in an infinite loop.

Good question.  Mostly because keeping a Perl interpreter running has a
non-zero impact on the machine's performance.  That, and I already have
a process running to perform periodic tasks, so I like to leverage it
when possible.
-- 

yours,

William

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