Re: Visual notice for X

[Glyn Kennington <glyn.kennington@hertford.oxford.ac.uk>]

Gerald Livingston wrote:
> Is there something that can be run in X that will force a "visual"
> notice of an event regardless of what window you happen to be looking
> at? I am usually in X now and always run apps maximized so changing the
> root background with xsetroot won't work (had considered that). Audio is
> out because I usually have the volume turned down because I share this
> room.

Have a look at xmsgd - http://thomas.apestaart.org/projects/Xmsgd/ .

Glyn

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