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 -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263