[the] Code Girl (aka UnrulyGrrl)

I was thinking I’d like to see the incoming subject lines of my email, not just how many new messages I had. So I wrote a procmail recipe that uses OSD:

:0c
| show_new_mail

and a one liner shell script called ’show_new_mail’ [really just to clean up the procmail recipe]

grep Subject|sed -e's/Subject: /New mail: /g'|DISPLAY=:0  osd_cat -f 9x15 -

Without the “DISPLAY=:0″ part, this fails with the error “Error initializing osd: No display” but only when it’s used as a procmail recipe. It worked fine from the command line.

This requires osd_cat, which is installed with xosd
———————————————————
7/8/2006 EDIT:
Good news for M$ Windows users: there is an xosd package available for Cygwin, so you can do cool OnScreenDisplay things just like linux/XWindows.

Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts:

• A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.
• A collection of tools, which provide Linux look and feel.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 21st, 2005 at 12:54 pm and is filed under linux, TipsnTricks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.