On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:22:33PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote:
> Afternoon,
>
> I am trying to work out a way to get a meassage flashed up on the screen
> once an hour to remind me to have a break (rest my eyes!).
>
> I set up a cron job like so:
>
> echo " Kit Kat" | osd_cat --bottom --offset=500 --color=red
> --delay=20
> --font=-adobe-helvetica-*-*-*-*-300-*-100-100-*-*-iso8859-*
This doesn't answer your question, but that, erm, sounds overly
complex :). Running those things from cron jobs seem like the
wrong way to go (cron jobs are really for non-interactive
processes).
As another solution, I have the following script:
16:33(0) ~% cat =kitkat
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
sleep 2400 # 2400 seconds = 40 minutes
/usr/bin/X11/xmessage -center -buttons 'Okie!:0' 'Take a break!'
done
Just dump that in your .xsession[1] or .xinitrc[2] file.
Substitute osd_cat as you wish, of course.
1. If you use XDM, GDM or KDM
2. If you use "startx" from the commandline
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