Re: [gentoo-user] pop up windows with text message

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 20:48:22 -0600, Joseph wrote:

> Thanks Alan, yes I'm looking into it and your are the second person who
> suggested to me "inotify" is the tool for the job. I've installed
> inotify-tools but I think I will need to find more samples to make it
> to work :-)

Try incron, it uses the kernel's inotify functions but does the work
for you, and it comes with plenty of examples.

> Once I copy the file, the system should notify a use that new file
> exist (a message pop-up).  If the use closes the message and will not
> open the file, after few ours I want to remind the user that the file
> has not been open yet. 

incron could launch one script you when the file is created. This
would send the notification and create an at job to send another
notification after a specified time. Then you could have another
icrond task triggered by the file being opened for read, that kills
the at job


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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