Checking for running apps in X

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Thu Oct 25 17:26:06 EDT 2001


Brian Medley <bpmedley at 4321.tv> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:44:31PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> 
> > 1) How do I check, from the command line, if there's already an instance
> > of a given program running in the current X display, and
> 
> Look into "xlswins" or "xlsclients"?
> 

xlsclients shows me what's running. Thanks. 

xlswins doesn't exist on my system (Redhat 7.1). Is that a separate add-on,
or a different name for the same tool on another flavor of Unix?


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