I'm looking for a command-line tool to pop up an X11 window, preferably with command-line control of fonts and colors.
Ideally, the window contents could come either from a command-line string, or from a simple text file provided either as standard input to the tool, or via a file named on the command line. The application is getting visible alerts to me from batch jobs and cron jobs that analyze system logs. At present, I get lots of e-mail with this kind of stuff, but I'm often hours, and sometimes, days, behind. For certain critical things, I'd really like instant and in-my-face notification. Although I've been using the X11 Window System for nearly two decades, I don't recall coming across such a tool. Obviously, one could probably cobble something together with Tcl/TK, but my suspicion is that there is a ``well-known, well-engineered, and well-documented tool'' that already exists, but I'm just ignorant of it, and at least, if I once knew, have since forgotten. Pointers, anyone? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gubug mailing list [email protected] https://gubug.org/mailman/listinfo/gubug
