Hello Monks,
I am writing a PerlTk application and would like to give the user a helpful message and simple text-only capability in the event that they do not have their $DISPLAY variable set correctly, or do not have X available at all.
Currently, this code: 
use Tk;
my $mw = MainWindow->new;

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produces this output: 
X connection to remotehost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdo
+wn).

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The trouble is, I can't seem to trap it with an "eval", the process exits anyway. The only option I see is to fork before the Tk code, and have the parent watch the output of the child, but I would like to avoid having an extra process hanging around. Are there any other options? What am I missing?
Thanks much!
-Nathan

In reply to Handle Tk "X connection broken" gracefully? by ndwg

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