X Message Daemon 0.6.5 review

X Message Daemon is used to overlay graphical information messages on your X display. You can choose parameters such as color, fon

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 220K Developer: Thomas Vander Stichele

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X Message Daemon is used to overlay graphical information messages on your X display.

You can choose parameters such as color, font, icon, and duration.

It also has a frontend Perl daemon and client.

Installing:

# ./configure
# make
# make install

then edit /usr/local/share/Xmsgd/etc/msgmaild.conf and change the configuration to your preferences.

Basic Usage:

- tailing your /var/log/messages :
# tail -f /var/log/messages | msgclient.pl &