the problem with xmessage is that it steals the focus. do you know a way to prevent it from doing that ?
Neale Pickett <ne...@woozle.org> writes: > On 3/5/2009, "Neale Pickett" <ne...@woozle.org> wrote: > >> xbacklight =[some-value] >> xvattr -a XV_BRIGHTNESS -v [some-value] > > While I'm thinking of it, I use xmessage to wake me up when my battery > is about to die. It has the nice advantage that if I'm not looking at > the screen that instant, it'll be around when I come back to it. And > also the screen doesn't explode. > > -- engin tola - http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~tola