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

[Joseph]

On 07/13/13 15:59, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:54:31AM -0600, 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?
>
>Only partially related, I wrote the following dumb little script for crontab notifies, or to check a laptop battery every 5 minutes and report if below a certain level, etc.  Really simple, but it works on most X systems.
>
>    #!/bin/sh
>
>    if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then export DISPLAY=localhost:0; fi
>    xmopts=
>    while [ "$1" = "-x" ]; do
>        xmopts="$xmopts $2"
>        shift;shift
>    done
>    echo "$@
>    " | xmessage -bg green -fg red -file - -title Alert -nearmouse -default okay $xmopts
>
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>

I came to the same conclusion, using gxmessage
$ ssh -t user@IP_address  'gxmessage -nearmouse -borderless --display :0.0  -entry Test message'

-- 
Joseph