[CentOS] display pop up message on X

Mon May 21 15:08:31 UTC 2007
Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu>

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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