Gnome Popup Messages

[Dave Hall]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:56 +1000, Simon Ives wrote:
> Thanks for the response Dave.
> 
> I'm having a problem where the popup message always displays:
> 
> "All updates are complete"
> 
> The window title is:
> 
> "Information"

That is a weird default - keep reading for the (tested) solution :)

> 
> I'll document the steps I took below:
> 
> ------------------------
> 
> Logged in to client machine via ssh.
> 
> sudo nano /usr/local/bin/popup
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # Popup message generator
> # Written by Dave Hall - http://davehall.com.au
> USER=`who | grep :0 | cut -d\  -f1`
> export DISPLAY=:0
> export XAUTHORITY=/home/$USER/.Xauthority
> zenity --info text=$1

My bad - change this line to
zenity --info --title="Broadcast message" --text="$1"

That way you get your message, and a nicer title.

It should work better now :)

Cheers

Dave