Re: X popup client sought
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:51:29PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> i would like to implement a service in the LAN which pops up a window
> on a workstation computer in response to an event generated on
> a central server. ideally, the popup window should be displayed for
Just a thought, but it would not be very difficult to write a basic UDP
sender/listener pair to wait for a datagram on an arbitrary port and
pass that as an argument to xmessage. It would only pop up on demand,
and xmessage takes a timeout as an argument. Since the listener would be
started in the user's X session xmessage would have access to the
display.
Of course, without some basic access control any random person could
just start spraying UDP datagrams all over the place and annoy everybody
with xmessage windows, but one problem at a time.... I suppose the
magnitude of that problem (and others) depends on the environment in
which you would use it.
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Michael Heironimus
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