gtmess-notify

gtmess-notify - popup notification windows

gtmess-notify

gtmess-notify is a simple Tcl/Tk script that pops up notification windows starting from the lower right corner of the screen. The script watches a named pipe for new lines and displays the contents of each line in a separate popup window. It was written as a companion to the gtmess messenger client, but could be of general use.

First we start our daemon:

$ gtmess-notify &

Then we can popup anything, like:

$ echo "hello world" > ~/.gtmess/notify.pip

However, the script terminates when the last client closes the pipe. So we ’d better keep it open. Or we can just run gtmess :-)

$ gtmess-notify &
some_other_terminal> gtmess
$ echo "now" > ~/.gtmess/notify.pip
$ echo "it works!" > ~/.gtmess/notify.pip

~/.gtmess/notify.pip

The named pipe where the text to be displayed is read from.

gtmess(1), gtmess_w(1)

Inspired from the aMSN messenger client.

gtmess-notify - popup notification windows
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 George M. Tzoumas

This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

The source code of this script is ABSOLUTELY FREE. You can do whatever you want with it ;-)