Hi everybody. I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power jack. I know there exists a kde applet which does this job, but I use plain IceWM, so I have to do it myself. My idea is: I have this script running as a daemon, and if battery capacity goes below a certain threshold, a window (Perl/TK or /GTK) should pop up and say: "Boy, you better run now..." Now my problem is: Usually only I have the right to display a new window on my screen, not any daemon user, no normal user and and certainly not root. Any pointers how to do that? I have already thought about beeping. I installed the "beep" program, but the problem is: I hear it only when I don't set my mixer to "mute" (which I do rather often... .
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