Previously from greg shebert
>this may be beyond the scope of a window manager but i figured that,
>since fvwm does so much already, that this might be possible...
>
>basically what i want to do is have a terminal window that normally
>stays iconified... whenever there is some output in the terminal window,
>it should pop up on top of all other windows on whatever desktop/screen
>the user is on, sit there for maybe 3 seconds, and then iconify itself
>again
>
>can this be done?
Well, I believe that somehow xconsole can be configured to change the
icon title to prepend an asterisk (*) or something when there's new
output. FvwmEvent can respond to icon title events, so you might be
able to work some magic here.
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Received on Mon Jun 05 2000 - 11:50:34 BST