Howto display popup message?

[bmarkus]

What is the easiest way to display a popup message from command line in TC 2.x?

[robc]

couldn't you use `popup Hello World`?

[bmarkus]

Message is displayed by a program, sent to STDOUT Piping doesn't work with popup. Assigning output to a variable then using it as an argument with popup is a bit better, but window is full width and lines are not formatted as in the original text.

[florian]

Message is displayed by a program, sent to STDOUT Piping doesn't work with popup.

my_program | xargs popup

[^thehatsrule^]

Most likely popup ignores it

Possible way: invoke aterm with something

[curaga]

Xdialog is available as an extension, it is pretty advanced in possible handling. Or in the base, dialog+aterm should work.

[bmarkus]

Xdialog is available as an extension, it is pretty advanced in possible handling. Or in the base, dialog+aterm should work.

Thanks, dialog seems to be appropriate at the moment as it is part of the system.