On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:54:31AM -0600, Joseph wrote: > How to design a sticky note pop-up when file is present? > > I would like to check if file is present via and open a terminal window with > a simple message. > I think a simple bash script and a cron job would do the trick or is there a > better solution?
Only partially related, I wrote the following dumb little script for crontab notifies, or to check a laptop battery every 5 minutes and report if below a certain level, etc. Really simple, but it works on most X systems. #!/bin/sh if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then export DISPLAY=localhost:0; fi xmopts= while [ "$1" = "-x" ]; do xmopts="$xmopts $2" shift;shift done echo "$@ " | xmessage -bg green -fg red -file - -title Alert -nearmouse -default okay $xmopts -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o