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I wanted to have this feature for quite some time. Today I realized it with osdsh. osdsh in combination with osdctl now displays a blue text in the centre and top of X (when it’s running) on every virtual desktop. So I don’t have to check for new messages such often (centericq is running inside a screen-session). I receive this message only in online-mode so it won’t disturb while playing dvds, working,…

# snippet of ~/.centericq/external
%action display-message-via-X
event msg
proto all
status online
options nowait
%exec
#!/bin/sh
if [ -z $(ps aux | grep "[X]11/X") ] ; then
  exit 0;
else
  nname=`head -n 46 $CONTACT_INFODIR/info | tail -n 1`
  if [ -z $(ps aux | grep "[o]sd") ] ; then
    DISPLAY=:0.0 osdsh -c blue -n 19 -o 1 --a 1 && sleep 3 &&
    osdctl -s "centericq: $nname,"
  else
    osdctl -s "centericq: $nname,"
  fi
fi

What I’d like to have is using such a feature while sitting on remote hosts. Any ideas? 8-)

Update: Changed the osdctl-command due to it expects two lines in any case, seperated by a comma. Thanks for the hint to Karl Voit.

2nd Update: corrected a spelling-error in the commented line of the script, of course it’s ~/.centericq/external and not external’s’ ;)

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