From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 8:38:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BABE537C3E4 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 08:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13ADjF-000Jkg-00; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:38:17 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA10053; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:38:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:38:16 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Dan Nelson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pop up notice for x Message-ID: <20000706163816.C9873@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000706155756.A9796@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000706100348.C20588@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000706100348.C20588@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:03:48AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:03:48AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > man xmessage okay, so far so good. the script i am using works when i call it from an xterm. and the 'logger' statement works when it is called from a console. but when called from a console (actually, by an APM script that detects when the battery is low) is doesn't show the message in X, only on the console. do i need to direct it to X or do something special to get it to work? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message