On Tuesday 22 July 2003 19:21, Joerg Johannes wrote: > 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... . > > Thanks > joerg
Just an idea I just got myself: I could save the mixer settings, set them to something appropriate to echo the warning beeps, and then restore the mixer settings. I'll try this one out. joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
