Making a notification bubble pop up.

Pupeno pupeno at pupeno.com
Sun Apr 9 13:34:51 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 13:17 +0000, Neil Woolford wrote:
> Neil Woolford <neil <at> neilwoolford.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera <at> zmsl.com> writes:
> > 
> > > How about:
> > > 
> > > zenity --info --text="I'm doing a system update."
> > > 
> > >
> > 
> > Thanks for that!  Looks good, but how do I get it to work on
> > other users' screens?
> > 
> 
> Sorry, should have quoted the results of trying to use zenity with the
> --display option;
> 
> neil at ubuntu:~ $ zenity --warning --text="Only me pal" --display=:20
> Xlib: connection to ":20.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> I doing something wrong here.  (I do have test user logged in on my system
> on display :20)
> 
> Neil

The user test has to allow you to connect to his/her display, man xhost.
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