On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 06:56:58AM +0300, Martin Barnard wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering if there was a program anywhere which will open a message
> box in X containing a text string that's passed to it.
> for example, if I wanted a bash script that would open a message box telling me
> of an event when I have no terminals open.
> If anyone knows of such a program, or can point me in the direction of making
> one (I'm currently learning C) then I'd be very grateful.
xmessage should do what you want. Use it as something like:
xmessage -buttons OK:1,Cancel:2 "This is my message."
The arguments after -buttons are the button labels to create and the exit code that
will be returned when the user hits that button.
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Steve Philp
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