Re: Detecting if GNOME is OK

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Eric Gillespie, Jr." <epg@pobox.com> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 04:00:01PM +0000,
> Dave Gilbert <gilbertd@treblig.org> wrote:
> >   I have a program I am porting to Gnome and it needs to test if it is
> > possible to start up as a Gnome app and if not fall back to text mode.
> > The test needs to be non-destructive and preferably not noticable to the
> > user.
> 
> You want gdk_init_check(), which returns FALSE if it can't open
> the display. If it returns TRUE, you can then call gnome_init().
>

I think it's gtk_init_check()
              ^
 
> BTW, if i'm not mistaken, gnome-devel-list is for development
> *of* Gnome, not development *using* Gnome. This question should
> have gone to gnome-list.
> 

No, gnome-devel-list includes development using GNOME. This is the
right place. gnome-list is far too cluttered for devel questions. ;-)

Havoc