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Re: linux: desktop notification library?

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Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> writes:
>On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:33 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody
>identifying as Robert Heller wrote...
>
>> At Wed, 18 May 2011 13:29:22 +0100 Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there any library that handles desktop notification that is
>>> independent of any desktop environment?  I've stumbled on
>>> libnotify[1] but it appear to be tied to GNOME.
>> 
>> There isn't one.  One of the *great* things about Linux and UNIX, in
>> addition to the fact that users are not tied to one specific desktop
>> environment (or to using *any* 'desktop environment' at all).
> 
>I'm not a programmer so I don't know what library it calls, but on my
>system here I have a tool, "/usr/bin/xmessage", which allows for a
>message to be sent to an X11 environment, and it appears to be using
>different libraries, because its appearance does not resemble Gnome,
>nor KDE - which is what I'm running.  It appears to have somewhat of a
>Motif/Lesstif style

xmessage is original X11, it uses the Athena Widgets library which is
part of the core X11 distribution.
>
>The xmessage utility has a man page too, but it doesn't say what
>libraries it involves - at least, not insofar as I could ascertain, but
>I've only skimmed it.

# ldd /usr/bin/xmessage
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffe64fc000)
        libXaw.so.7 => /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 (0x00007fe6afcb1000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x00007fe6afa4b000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x00007fe6af832000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fe6af4fc000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x00007fe6af2f3000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fe6aef83000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00007fe6aed71000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x00007fe6aeb60000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007fe6ae944000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fe6ae740000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x00007fe6ae525000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fe6ae320000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fe6aff20000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00007fe6ae11d000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007fe6adf18000)

These are all core X11R6 (x.org) libraries.

scott

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linux: desktop notification library? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-18 13:29 +0100
  Re: linux: desktop notification library? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-05-18 10:33 -0500
    Re: linux: desktop notification library? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-05-18 16:53 +0100
    Re: linux: desktop notification library? Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-05-18 18:02 +0200
      Re: linux: desktop notification library? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-05-18 16:43 +0000
      Re: linux: desktop notification library? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-05-18 11:56 -0500
    Re: linux: desktop notification library? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-05-18 18:23 +0100
      Re: linux: desktop notification library? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-18 19:21 +0100
        Re: linux: desktop notification library? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-05-18 14:11 -0500
          Re: linux: desktop notification library? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 12:03 +0100
            Re: linux: desktop notification library? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-05-20 08:08 -0500
        Re: linux: desktop notification library? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-05-18 20:28 +0100
          Re: linux: desktop notification library? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 12:08 +0100

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