Comments on: Simple pop-up notifications

By: scenekid

scenekid — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:57:02 +0000

notify-send “hackaday.com publishes excellent posts”

By: spindizy

spindizy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:40:45 +0000

Wow, now with e-dawg gone, this place is turning into /b/ for geeks.

By: rofl

rofl — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:17:37 +0000

@jojo: pwnd! winfaggot

By: MrX

MrX — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:17:48 +0000

@jojo
And which utility is that? You are full of shit.

Since you first started the “we had it first” flame war, take this dumbass:

xmessage command which does the same is available since the early beginnings of X11 servers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

“The current protocol version, X11, appeared in September 1987.”

Good to see that a UNIX utility I’ve had since 1987 is available on windows (since 1996).

Suck it, LOL.

By: Eraser

Eraser — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:00:31 +0000

Thats the thing guys, like D1g1talDragon said,
“Even if the package has been around a while, it’s always nice to have attention called to something I don’t specifically search for.”
Who cares if there is something older or newer. Thats not why I visit Hackaday ever day. So I wasn’t thinking about my particular scripts giving feedback with popups, but than I saw this article, and although I had prior knowledge of other ways of creating popups, it was the injection of the idea that helped me out. So stop your flippin whining about this not being up to your standard.
Hackaday: Keep up the good work.

By: Sariel

Sariel — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:57:53 +0000

I have to agree that this isn’t a hack, but it really keeps you up to date on things going on with your server. so its more of a production utility than a hack.

By: chango

chango — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:38:58 +0000

Hey kids, did you know you can write messages to the system log with the “logger” command?

It’s true!

By: matschi

matschi — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:27:13 +0000

A nice hack would be to write a dbus library for arduino. It is possible to connect dbus via tcp/ip. Authentication is still a task though..

By: somehelp

somehelp — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:07:17 +0000

I agree, not a hack. For brevity I have clipped the most relevant definition:

* Main Entry: hack (2)

6 : a usually creative solution to a computer hardware or programming problem or limitation

Now if there is an official definition that applies, by all means let me know.

By: simonvc

simonvc — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:01:42 +0000

What _is_ a hack is this little script that lets root send messages to the current logged in users X session. simonvc@katana:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/root-notify-send #!/bin/sh #find out who is running X by looking for the screensaver UU=$(ps -ef | grep gnome-screensaver | grep -v grep |awk '{print $2}') US=$(ps -ef | grep gnome-screensaver | grep -v grep |awk '{print $1}') ESS=$(iwconfig eth1 | grep ESS | awk '{print $4}' | sed s/ESSID:// | sed s/\"//g ) DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$(grep -z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS /proc/$UU/environ | sed s/DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=//) sudo -u $US DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS /usr/bin/notify-send "$*"

By: Mike Szczys

Mike Szczys — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:15:00 +0000

@fiveseven: I’m using the “New Wave” theme. I believe it comes standard with Ubuntu 9.04

By: FiveseveN

FiveseveN — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:00:18 +0000

Hey Mike, what theme are you using :) That taskbar looks mighty smooth.

By: xiao_haozi

xiao_haozi — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:41:07 +0000

“Good to see that a windows utility I’ve had since 1996 is available on linux and mac (since 2004).”

…. just because you are seeing someone post about a tip from linuxjournal now, does not mean it is a new utility.

By: jojo

jojo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:11:41 +0000

Good to see that a windows utility I’ve had since 1996 is available on linux and mac (since 2004).

By: ak77

ak77 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:24:51 +0000

terry,

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070602201030683

http://blog.wi.id.au/2008/07/07/os-x-command-line-fun-with-growl/