Hello

I want to display an un-intrusive graphical dialog to notify the workstation user that a bash script has finished running. It should be "top level", so visible to the user when it appears but should not grab focus, so the user can continue working in the current window and dismiss the notification when convenient.

Researching gdialog, xdialog, xmessage and zenity it seems none of them can do this; they all grab focus.

Any suggestions?

Best

Charles

One way I can think of for zenity is to edit its glade file. Downside of this is that all "zenity's" on your system will start without focus.

Anyway, to do this edit /usr/share/zenity/zenity.glade (on ubuntu/debian, may be different location on other distro's). Search for the line reading:and change 'True' to 'False'.

kdialog has a "nograb" option, but I can't make it work......

Thanks Hko and pixellany

A couple of links for anyone netsearching this issue.

There's some discussion of zenity and focus at https://bugs.launchpad.net/zenity/+bug/272083 including Hko's suggested workaround and a version of zenity with a --focus option (but it's probably both "on top" and focus).

Zenity enhancement requests are listed at http://live.gnome.org/Zenity after clicking "More information". It includes an "Always on top" enhancement request but nothing about focus.

I submitted an enhancement request for a command line option not to grab focus.

If I get kdialog's nograb option to work, I'll post back.

Best

Charles