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
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