Re: [gentoo-user] pop up windows with text message

[Joseph]

On 07/10/13 11:21, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>On 09/07/2013 18:54, Joseph wrote:
>> How to design a sticky note pop-up when file is present?
>>
>> I would like to check if file is present via and open a terminal window
>> with a simple message.
>> I think a simple bash script and a cron job would do the trick or is
>> there a better solution?
>>
>> I've tried cron + bash script
>>
>> cron:
>> 32 10 * * * sh /home/joseph/xp_share/wall.sh
>>
>> wall.sh
>> terminal
>> wall file ready
>>
>> When I open terminal and type: "terminal" new windows pops up
>> But if close all the terminals and run wall.sh script the terminal will
>> not open.
>> I get an error message: (terminal:24945): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open
>> display:
>>
>
>
>You want inotify for this.
>
>You are polling something to discover if it's there, what yu really want
>to do is let the kernel notify you when the event you are interested in
>occurs.
>
>There are many tools out there that interface with the kernel's inotify
>system.
>
>
>--
>Alan McKinnon
>alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

Thanks Alan, yes I'm looking into it and your are the second person who suggested to me "inotify" is the tool for the job.
I've installed inotify-tools but I think I will need to find more samples to make it to work :-)

I just want to monitor one file in a directory.
I usually copy the file over the network to another computer (same file name) I'll overwrite the file.

Once I copy the file, the system should notify a use that new file exist (a message pop-up).  If the use closes the message and will not open the file, after few 
ours I want to remind the user that the file has not been open yet.

Will it be very complicated to write a bash script like this?

-- 
Joseph