WinPopUp type messages from FreeBSD to Mac OS X
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Thu Apr 2 00:01:40 PDT 2009
Charles Howse wrote:
> Anyone know of a command-line program that will pop-up a window on my
> Mac with a message from FreeBSD?
If you're running an X server on your Mac (Xorg, XFree86),
then you can use the xmessage(1) tool, with the $DISPLAY
variable set appropriately. It can even be used to create
simple dialogs (Such as "OK" / "Cancel") that can be used
from shell scripts.
Best regards
Oliver
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