Gary, could you post a few links to some of those libraries? Yes, that's exactly what I'd like to do. Why? It's a great way for unobtrusive, yet noticeable, notifications. My immediate goal is to script a little unit test runner in the background, which constantly runs, and loads a green or red icon in the tray.
But I think being able to do this from shell scripts would be very, very useful. How 'bout an icon that pop ups when an incoming email has the word "URGENT" in it? That way, you can avoid disrupting your flow, and not check your email, and still be informed when an urgent one comes in. A few lines of shell script, once we'd have this. Anyone up to code this? But, yes, my immediate use is for simple continuous integration / test driven development. Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: There are a few libraries (actually example code, it's not terribly hard - just hard to do right) to do this, yes. But I don't quite understand your question. It sounds like you want to do something like: put-an-alert-in-the-system-tray.exe --alert-type=stopsign --tooltip-text="Emergency!" Is that right? I'm kind of missing the point though - what happens if you click it? Maybe a "--run-this-app-when-clicked=" param would make something like this actually useful.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/