is there an easy way to get using C++ the fullpath of an X11
Application?
Applications can live anywhere on disk. But in order to be runnable,
they have to be somewhere in the $PATH. The standard C library
includes a function to search the $PATH for an app and run it
(execvp), but I don't think there's one for finding the exe without
running it. I think for that you have to just loop through the
directories in getenv("PATH") and check for existence of the program
in each one. You can probably borrow code from the which command, or
any of the shells, or...
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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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