XNOTIFY(n) XNOTIFY(n)
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NAME
xnotify - pop up a message on one or multiple displays
SYNOPSIS
xnotify [displays: >= 1 ] [-yes] [-no] [-maybe] [-ack] [-silent] [-noX]
[-version] [-nobeep]
OPTIONS
-yes: puts a button on the windows which will send back a yes answer
to the sender.
-no: puts a button on the windows which will send back a no answer to
the sender.
-maybe: puts a button on the windows which will send back a maybe
answer to the sender.
-ack: puts a button on the windows which will send back a simple
acknowledgment.
-respond: puts a button on the windows which will allow the
recipients to type in and send back a message to the originator.
By default, if none of these are chosen, there will be an
acknowledgment button on the window.
-silent: shuts the program up. Doesn't print out the stuff it
normally does.
-noX: will suppress the response window altogether. Instead, the
information that would normally be in the response window will be
printed on stdout. This enables you to be on a normal terminal but
still send messages to those with X terminals. The beginnings of
"Creeping Featurism".
-nobeep: by default, xnotify beeps at you when you get some kind of
acknowledgement and when the notification pops up on the recipient's
display. This switch makes it shut up.
-version: prints out the version and exits.
All commands except -nobeep and -noX may be shortened to the first
letter (e.g. -y for -yes).
DESCRIPTION
xnotify is an X program which opens up connections to multiple
displays and pops up a window with user input as the text. I suppose
you could think of it as putting a note on the screen of as many
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people as you want. This allows you to let several people know
something simultaneously. Additionally, on your terminal, it pops up
a window with a list of all of the connections and whether they have
been acknowledged. When someone acknowledges the message, his/her
response or simple acknowledgement is given in the response window.
When all connections are acknowledged, you can dismiss this response
window.
Information in the window popped up on multiple displays includes the
sender, the recipients, the time the message was sent, the message,
and the various buttons (see OPTIONS above).
This is similar to xnote(1), except that it is on multiple displays.
Upon startup, xnotify will ask for input from stdin, which will be
displayed. The program exits when all of the windows have been closed
and you dismiss the response window.
SEE ALSO
xmessage(1), xnote(1)
AUTHOR
David Partain <davpa@ida.liu.se>, University of Linkoping, Sweden
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1993, David Partain, Department of Computer and
Information Sciences, University of Linkoping, Sweden, 581 83
Linkoping, Sweden.
xnotify is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with the programs; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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