Re: Timer for X-windows?

2021-10-24 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 at 21:15, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > > On 10/24/21 11:06 AM, Ignatios Souvatzis (GSG) wrote: > > > > Am 23. Oktober 2021 04:55:21 MESZ schrieb Simon Burge : > > > > #!/bin/sh > >> $* > >> > >> > >> osd_cat is in pkgsrc/x11/xosd > >> > > I've used xmessage for similar tasks

Re: Timer for X-windows?

2021-10-24 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
On 10/24/21 11:06 AM, Ignatios Souvatzis (GSG) wrote: Am 23. Oktober 2021 04:55:21 MESZ schrieb Simon Burge : #!/bin/sh $* osd_cat is in pkgsrc/x11/xosd I've used xmessage for similar tasks (in xbase) Same here. Its easy enough to script a timer and pop up an xmessage.

Re: Timer for X-windows?

2021-10-24 Thread Ignatios Souvatzis (GSG)
Am 23. Oktober 2021 04:55:21 MESZ schrieb Simon Burge : #!/bin/sh > $* > > >osd_cat is in pkgsrc/x11/xosd > I've used xmessage for similar tasks (in xbase) -- GSG IfI+B-IT CIE (Chief IPv6 Enabler)

Re: Timer for X-windows?

2021-10-24 Thread Todd Gruhn
Thanks Simon. I got the script working. It will give me another reason to learn /bin/ksh. So far, the only thing I learned is PERL. (just because the syntax and power beat Apple Basic (made in 1984) ) On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:55 PM Simon Burge wrote: > > Todd Gruhn wrote: > > > I have a

Re: RAIDframe boot issues on amd64 (BIOS boot)

2021-10-24 Thread Matthias Petermann
On 22.10.21 07:58, Matthias Petermann wrote: ## Questions  - does anyone know what the output of @'s means? I could not derive this from the source code of the bootxx_ffsv2 unfortunately, also did not find something in the error code explainations in the wiki[2]  - could it be a BIOS