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VCRTTY(1)              DragonFly General Commands Manual             VCRTTY(1)

NAME
     vcrtty - try to find a terminal-like name for the current session

SYNOPSIS
     vcrtty

DESCRIPTION
     The vcrtty utility examines the current session and tries to find the
     name of a terminal or something similar that could describe it for tools
     like vcr(1) that do different things on different terminals.  The vcrtty
     utility tries the following in succession:

     *       If the TTY environment variable is set, vcrtty outputs its
             contents.

     *       If the tty(1) command may be executed successfully, vcrtty
             outputs its result.

     *       If the DISPLAY environment variable is set, vcrtty assumes that
             this is a X session and outputs a "xdesktopN" string after trying
             to determine which X desktop it is running on; for this purpose,
             the wmctrl(1) tool is used if available.

     *       Otherwise vcrtty does not output anything at all; it is up to the
             invoking program to decide whether to treat this as an error.

RETURN VALUES
     The vcrtty utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

ENVIRONMENT
     The vcrtty utility examines the TTY and DISPLAY environment variables as
     outlined above.  Also, the PATH variable may affect its operation when
     invoking tty(1) or wmctrl(1).

FILES
     The vcrtty utility's operation is not directly affected by any files.

EXAMPLES
     Well, just do it - output a usable TTY name:

           vcrtty

SEE ALSO
     tty(1), vcr(1), wmctrl(1)

HISTORY
     The vcrtty utility was written by Peter Pentchev in 2011.

AUTHORS
     Peter Penchev <roam@ringlet.net>

DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT        March 2, 2011       DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT