On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:43:31AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > Not entirely debian related, but... Can someone recommend a simple > language that I could use to write a pop-up message program for X? I > would like to be notified when I have new mail in a samba-mounted > spool. I haven't found any applets that suit me because when I don't > have mail, I don't want to see anything. I don't know any languages > (except awk and bash scripting), so any sample scripts that you might > have would be very useful.
if you want to use shell scripting, you could use "xterm -geometry 40x10 -e dialog --msgbox 'new mail!' 6 20" as your pop-up-window. :-) or, if you want to use a real x-toolkit.. perhaps Tcl/Tk? moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */