[CentOS] display pop up message on X
Matt Hyclak
hyclak at math.ohiou.edu
Mon May 21 15:08:31 UTC 2007
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:00:49AM -0400, Jerry Geis enlightened us:
> Is there a method to display pop up messages on X display?
>
> I found xmessage, however I was hoping for something a little more
> flexible. like being able to tell xmessage to display a file (typically
> one line in the file).
> then send it a signal to tell it to re-read the file and show the new data.
>
> Sure I can kill it and re-show it but that isnt very nice...
>
> Is there something available in centos 5 for this that I dont know about?
>
I don't know that it's included in CentOS 5, but xosd (On Screen Display)
might do what you want. It looks like it's in RPMForge.
Matt
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