gtmess-notify(1)

NAME
gtmess-notify - popup notification windows

SYNOPSIS
gtmess-notify

DESCRIPTION

gtmess-notify is a simple Tcl/Tk script that pops up notification windows starting from the lower right corner of the screen. The script watches a named pipe for new lines and displays the contents of each line in a separate popup window. It was written as a companion to the gtmess messenger client, but could be of general use.

EXAMPLE

First we start our daemon:

$ gtmess-notify &

Then we can popup anything, like:

$ echo "hello world" > ~/.gtmess/notify.pip

When we're done we can kill it:

$ killall gtmess-notify

FILES

~/.gtmess/notify.pip
    The named pipe where the text to be displayed is read from. If the file does not exist it is created. When the script catches a SIGINT signal, it deletes the pipe and exits.

SEE ALSO
gtmess(1), gtmess_w(1), notify-send(1), growlnotify(1)

BUGS
Script fails to remove the pipe upon SIGTERM (at least in Darwin).

CREDITS

Inspired from the aMSN messenger client.

AUTHORS

gtmess-notify - popup notification windows
Copyright (C) 2002-2004,2010 George M. Tzoumas

This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

The source code of this script is ABSOLUTELY FREE. You can do whatever you want with it ;-)