Re: [CentOS] display pop up message on X

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