I think PxT is correct in saying that the DISPLAY variable is not set. You can set the $DISPLAY in cron, or in your srcipt / application.
If you just want some quick, simple notification, you could pop up an xterm on, say, $DISPLAY=":0", with a few lines of code:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
DISPLAY=":0"
Pay_Attention () {
echo "It is time for you to pay attention!"
echo "Press {Enter} when you are done..."
read _dummy_response
case $_dummy_response in
*) exit 0 ;;
esac
}
xterm -e Pay_Attention
exit
I'm sure there's a better way of doing that, but thats the first one that popped into my head... Heck, that as-is probably won't work, but it given you an idea of what I'm thinking, right?
Either way - the xterm will close when someone presses the enter key...
I have added a new experimental "Computer Science and Mathematics Trivia - True or False" section in the discussions, currently under the tags box.
In the future, I plan to
Expand this feature to add more trivia categories from math, science and technology.
Keep track of correct and... (20 Replies)
The UNIX and Linux Forums now has over 1000 TRUE / FALSE computer science and computer related trivia question in our database. These questions are of relatively high quality (compared to similar sites on the web) and are fun (according to feedback by users). In the first week during the... (1 Reply)
Thanks to Akshay, who helped me write the core MySQL queries, we now have two new draft leaderboards, by (1) member and by (2) country:
https://www.unix.com/trivia_stats.php
Currently milhan leads the members with a high score of 90%:
... (3 Replies)
Only a few days after I coded this new feature from scratch, we are seeing over 3000 entries in the database from members (mostly guests) playing CS trivia.
I have spend a lot of time coding this (from scratch) and testing the API. From the logs, it seems to have an API bug which appears... (31 Replies)
Just noticed that our successful computer trivia feature (stats here) has surpassed over 50,000 questions answered by users:
https://www.unix.com/trivia_stats.php
This was a coding effort worth while and I'm pleased to see so many people enjoying it in such a short time since it was released... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Neo
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shownonascii
shownonascii(1) General Commands Manual shownonascii(1)NAME
shownonascii - View all or part of a mail message in a non-ASCII font
SYNOPSIS
shownonascii charset-font-name [-e command-to-execute] file-name(s)
DESCRIPTION
The shownonascii program allows data in non-ASCII character sets to be viewed under X11. By default, it will open up an xterm using the
font named in the first argument, running the "more" command to view all of the files named on the command line.
If the -e switch is used, the rest of the command line will be taken as the command to tell xterm to run instead of more.
If the MM_CHARSET environment variable is set and matches the character set named in the first argument, a new xterm window will not be
opened.
If the MM_AUXCHARSETS environment variable is set the character set named in the first argument is a subset of that string, a new xterm
window will not be opened.
SEE ALSO mailto-hebrew(1), mailto(1), metamail(1)BUGS
Nope.
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Release 1 shownonascii(1)
07-25-2001
