On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:05 +1000, Steffen Kluge wrote: > What are the preferred mechanisms in FC5 to achieve this? Something > around DBus? What would be a typical tool chain? I admit I'm a bit > overwhelmed atm by the DBus docs (and my failure to get examples from > man pages to work). I don't know about preferred, but you might want to give xmessage or zenity a try. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux 23:24:13 up 1 day, 16:53, 3 users, load average: 0.45, 0.54, 0.64