On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:44:16 -0400, hacker (of golf) wrote:
> I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed.
>
> I'm trying this:
>
> root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox "Connection Speed
> `tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors | awk '{ print $6 }'` bps"
> kdialog: cannot connect to X server localhost:0
>
> but, as you can see, it won't connect to the xserver.
>
> How can I get this to work?
Why not use xmessage instead? Then you can use the script even if kde
isn't installed on the box... (someone like me..)
I use xmessage a lot for these kind of info boxes.. really easy to use..
man xmessage gives you all the info you need...
cheers..
mr mike..
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