I am trying to send myself an alarm call in a few minutes time. If I
run 'xmessage "Wake Up"' from the command line in Bash a little window
pops up showing Wake Up.
If I run 'at now + 2 minutes' then press enter I get
at> At which point I enter 'xmessage '"Wake Up"' and press
enter which gives
at> I then do Ctrl D and get
at> <EOT>
job 42 at 2007-06-18 16:38
[clive@Core ~]$
The at command seems to work as I get a mail saying
Error: Can't open display:
I have tried all combinations of enter and Ctrl D I can think of but
can't get xmessage to show up. I have also used 'cd /etc' instead of
xmessage but the working directory does not change.
Is it the way Bash interprets the call?
What am I doing wrong?
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Clive Woodfine
