Detecting running programs in Linux

[Kubil]

Does anyone know how to detect some/all programs that running in Linux system,
here is the result from ps x for example

bash -ls
knotify [kdeinit]
/bin/bash
/bin/sh /usr/bin/thunderbird
/bin/sh /usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin -contentLocale US -UILocale en-US
/usr/libexec/gconfd-2 17
assistant
gaim

i want detect e.g thunderbird or containing,
if already running or not directly from qt.
thanks.

[marcel]

You can find the ps or top sources in the distribution sources. Then you can take the code from there and put it in your Qt application.

Although, I think they are using /proc to get the infos.

Another way is to run ps or top with QProcess and analyze their output.

[c_07]

This reminds me of a similar thread on a different forum that I saw a while back.
The fourth post down might be helpful.