Re: X popup client sought

2002-09-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Heironimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.2356 +0200]: > Of course, without some basic access control any random person could > just start spraying UDP datagrams all over the place and annoy everybody > with xmessage windows, but one problem at a time I suppose the > magni

Re: X popup client sought

2002-09-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"martin" == martin f krafft writes: martin> also sprach Vineet Kumar >> >> ssh -i workstation xmessage >> >> The workstation allows it, and you don't have to open it up >> with xhost. martin> I can't get it to work. in a connection that's properly martin>

Re: X popup client sought

2002-09-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"martin" == martin f krafft writes: martin> work? it always fails with "Cannot open display" even martin> though I set `xhost +` on the workstation's running X martin> process. i am thinking that it's related to X not binding martin> port 6000 on startup, but am clueless as t

Re: X popup client sought

2002-09-26 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:51:29PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i would like to implement a service in the LAN which pops up a window > on a workstation computer in response to an event generated on > a central server. ideally, the popup window should be displayed for Just a thought, but it wo

Re: X popup client sought

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.2258 +0200]: > Actually, that gets me to an even better idea: create a new FIFO just > for this purpose, have syslog send just those messages to that FIFO, and > start xconsole with -f pointing to it. Not bad. But that would leave the windo

Re: X popup client sought

2002-09-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020926 13:59]: > Actually, that gets me to an even better idea: create a new FIFO just > for this purpose, have syslog send just those messages to that FIFO, and > start xconsole with -f pointing to it. After consulting xconsole(1), I realize I meant '-file', n

Re: X popup client sought

2002-09-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020926 04:57]: > i would like to implement a service in the LAN which pops up a window > on a workstation computer in response to an event generated on > a central server. ideally, the popup window should be displayed for > a configurable amount of time befor

X popup client sought

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
i would like to implement a service in the LAN which pops up a window on a workstation computer in response to an event generated on a central server. ideally, the popup window should be displayed for a configurable amount of time before being destroyed again. rather than using the X protocol, xme