Detecting X windows capabilities

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From: Brent Webster
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 12:42

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Currently I've got a .login csh script running and I want to 
detect if a user remoting logging in has X windows capabilities.
Right now my using:

	xwininfo -root -display <remote host window>

This works fine when the remote machine is running X windows but
if it isn't then is has a tendency to just sit there waiting.
Is there some way I can set up a timeout or is their another
routine I can use?
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