Re: program to display popups in X ?

[Kent West]

Stefan O'Rear wrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:38:55PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
 

Is there n easy program/way for me to get popup messages to appear in
X?  I basically create a text file in ~/docs/ with random information
and I wish to use cron to have it popup this information in X on an
hourly basis.
Lance
   

1. Write a script
  Put this in a file (let's call it ~/popupd)
#! /bin/sh
while :; do
 if [ -f ~/POPUP ] ; then
   xmessage -file ~/POPUP &
 fi
 sleep 1h
done
2. Make it executable
  chmod +x ~/popupd
3. Make it run on X startup
  startx : add "~/popupd &" to the middl eof your .xinitrc
  GNOME, KDE, OTHER : it'll be a "startup application"...
There are many ways to do what you asked. I'm just telling you about the
system I'm using...
 

Or for something more KDE-ish, something like:
kdialog --msgbox 'Howdy!'
(or with other switches you can put a message up from a file like in 
Stefan's example above, or question boxes, etc.

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Kent
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