I do not know if I have catched your problem at all but if you want to do something like on screen display you should take a lock at XOSD (http://www.ignavus.net/software.html) On Sunday 27 June 2004 10:56, guharaja@softhome.net wrote: > GUI newbie here. > > Looking for a means to have walled messages appear on KDE desktops ( or > should be handled in X ? ) > > Thanks.