Re: howto get popup for connection speed

[Mr Mike <mike@ejecta.net>]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:44:16 -0400, hacker (of golf) wrote:

> I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed.
> 
> I'm trying this:
> 
> root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox "Connection Speed
> `tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors | awk '{ print $6 }'` bps"
> kdialog: cannot connect to X server localhost:0
> 
> but, as you can see, it won't connect to the xserver.
> 
> How can I get this to work?

Why not use xmessage instead?  Then you can use the script even if kde
isn't installed on the box...  (someone like me..)

I use xmessage a lot for these kind of info boxes..  really easy to use..
man xmessage gives you all the info you need...

cheers..
mr mike..