Console/Shell Programs Detecting GUI

[Brian Yennie]

What platforms are you looking for this on? I seem to remember that 
some of the UNIX command-line engines (i.e. Darwin, Linux) had a 
command-line switch to enable or disable XWindows, but I could be wrong.

It may be hard to build a standalone that behaves like this, as opposed 
to a stack that checks environment() and is run with different engines. 
Note that command-line engines send a "startup" message but no 
"openStack"...

HTH,
Brian

> nteresting, and a excelent suggestion. My question becomes whe I 
> tested a few of my applications (standalones) on startup they 
> attempted to contact the 'X' subsystem to create the visual 
> representation of the main stack. Is that you experience? Am I doing 
> something incorrectly?