Is x server connection still valid?

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:05:17PM -0600, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
> I hope this is the right place to ask this question:
> 
> I have various displays and want to modify the LEDs of the keyboards
> connected to them.
> 
> In order to do that I XOpenDisplay and see if it is successful.
> 
> If successful I use XChangeKeyboardControl.
> 
> But how do I find out next time I use that function that the X server
> connection is still valid?
> The user may have logged off, causing a SIGPIPE fault in using the function.
> Is there some way to find if the display structure actually still is
> for an existing connection without getting into that SIGPIPE?

Xlib's default behaviour is to just terminate your process (see
XSetIOErrorHandler, I think it is), so you're pretty safe there.

Cheers,
Daniel
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