Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Messagebox on current desktop Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 09:46:16 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <87387n7cw4.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 14:47:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c50a9e5d554cfaba13eda1c71e805135"; logging-data="5380"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/M1kp2dbZssEVYcQRI7Hdv0GBeTOBXQTo=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:sVYC/bO/m2oxsbrMrZV7/V6Rnjk= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:30650 On 01/07/2015 09:11 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote: > LOL > At my terminal I type: > jeff@debian:~$ xmessage "Test message from Steve." > and a small dialog appears with the message > "Test message from Steve." along with an OK button! > Should be usable from within a Java program? > If I use gmessage instead of xmessage, a notification is sent to my desktop notification tray. Don't know yet if I can buttons in there.