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pirateofms

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Registered: 2010-05-10

Posts: 23

Checking for composite manager

It may be a dumb question, but is there any way to check if compositing is actually working in bash or python?

Ex: I'd like to start terminator and tint2 after I'm sure that cairo-compmgr has finished loading, without using sleep.

Is it possible to just check if it's icon is in the tray?  If so, how?  Or is there a variable that gets set for it?

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

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Re: Checking for composite manager

You could check if the process is running using psgrep.

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pirateofms

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Registered: 2010-05-10

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Re: Checking for composite manager

It looks like psgrep essentially does 'ps aux | grep' for me.  Not bad (I actually just made it into a bash function, handy.)

The only problem is I would get back results as soon as the program is launched, regardless if it's actually started compositing yet.  I'd like to make sure I'm only launching them AFTER it's actually started compositing.  Possible?