Hi everybody.This isn't exactly an answer but it may give you an idea. I wrote a bash script to remind me of events, no matter what the user or the windowmanager, I use fluxbox and KDE
I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power jack. I know there exists a kde applet which does this job, but I use plain IceWM, so I have to do it myself. My idea is: I have this script running as a daemon, and if battery capacity goes below a certain threshold, a window (Perl/TK or /GTK) should pop up and say:
"Boy, you better run now..."
Now my problem is: Usually only I have the right to display a new window on my screen, not any daemon user, no normal user and and certainly not root. Any pointers how to do that?
I have already thought about beeping. I installed the "beep" program, but the problem is: I hear it only when I don't set my mixer to "mute" (which I do rather often... .
Thanks joerg
It runs via daily cron, setup with crontab per user.A bit of a pain to setup each user, but a one off. As such it runs with the appropreate users authority. I then used
xmessage --display=:0 -fn 9x15 -center -buttons OK,Print,Delete -default OK -bg $_xmsgcol -file -
to display the message, xmessage allows fonts, colours and keys to be defined and detected as well.
I have no idea if this is any use with perl ! Good Luck Dave
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