Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi,
How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab entry?
There is xmessage, but from crontab?
Set your $DISPLAY variable appropriately.
DISPLAY=:0.0 xmessage "My message"
... should work, if not in your crontab entry itself then in a script
called by same. ":0.0" should work for most circumstances.
Karsten,
Not that way, but:
xmessage -file /xmessage.downmsg.msg -display :1.0
works.
But I cannot get that to work from crontab and at the moment crontab
is not mailing any actions that I can find.
It works execution a script with that in it.
However, everybody (I have a 2 seater Debian) must issue xhost + from
their session for it to be allowed.
That should be:
/usr/bin/X11/xmessage -file /xmessage.downmsg.msg -display :1.0
otherwise he complains that he cannot find xmessage.
You can add font info:
/usr/bin/X11/xmessage -center -file /xmessage.downmsg.msg -display :0.0
-font -adobe-times-bold-r-*-*-25-*-*-*-*-*
-*-* -bg yellow -fg black
And xmessage has no beep facility. Better yet: program the speaker for a
unique sound that makes this sort of message obvious.
So I wrote a Qt app. that does so and displays any richtext contained in
a file and displays that file with a unique 3 beep warning that can be
executed from crontab.
If anybody wants that, let me know at hugo van woerkom (but all one
word) at yahoo dot com.
H
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