Darrell Anderson wrote:
>>> All I want to know is whether the non gui commands of TDE such as
>>>  kwriteconfig and kreadconfig can (easily) be built without the X
>>>  overhead.

>> You would either have to: -separate non-X-dependent parts of Qt
>> like for Qt4 -not do that separation but instead use the X
>> functions as weak symbols and add a dlopen() of X libraries to
>> every X-using Qt3 application

>> I really don't see a really easy option; there is a third option
>> which would be to compile both with-X and without-X versions of 
>> kdelibs and Qt3 but without significant linker magic it is likely
>> to load both versions of kdelibs and Qt3 within a Trinity session.
> 
> Fair enough. Too bad. :(

Here's an easy option:

if [ -r ~/.kde/share/config/kcminputrc  -a  \
      "x`grep LeftHanded ~/.kde/share/config/kcminputrc`" != "x" ]; then
   echo left
else
   echo right
fi

   -- Bruce