Re: OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

[Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de>]

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 20:44, David selby wrote:
> Joerg Johannes wrote:
> >Hi everybody.
> >
> >I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of
> > my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see
> > how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to
> > the nect power jack. I know there exists a kde applet which does
> > this job, but I use plain IceWM, so I have to do it myself. My idea
> > is: I have this script running as a daemon, and if battery capacity
> > goes below a certain threshold, a window (Perl/TK or /GTK) should
> > pop up and say: "Boy, you better run now..."
> >Now my problem is: Usually only I have the right to display a new
> > window on my screen, not any daemon user, no normal user and and
> > certainly not root. Any pointers how to do that?
> >I have already thought about beeping. I installed the "beep"
> > program, but the problem is: I hear it only when I don't set my
> > mixer to "mute" (which I do rather often... .
> >
> >Thanks
> >joerg
>
> This isn't exactly an answer but it may give you an idea. I wrote a
> bash script to remind me of events, no matter what the user or the
> windowmanager, I use fluxbox and KDE
>
> It runs via daily cron, setup with crontab per user.A bit of a pain
> to setup each user, but a one off. As such it runs with the
> appropreate users authority. I then used
>
> xmessage --display=:0 -fn 9x15 -center -buttons OK,Print,Delete
> -default OK -bg $_xmsgcol -file -
>
> to display the message, xmessage allows fonts, colours and keys to be
> defined and detected as well.
>
> I have no idea if this is any use with perl !

It is! I can simply execute it with system();
I think I put the script in my users' X startup files, it won't be of 
any use otherways...

Thanks
joerg

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