Pop up a message on the GUI from cron

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In KDE, I find that if I echo something to pts/0:



me@mypc:~$ echo hello > /dev/pts/0


I get a message flash sent to myself.



I'd like to make a cron job to send similar messages to myself regularly. How can I do this?



P.S. I know that Ctrl+Alt+F7 switches to the GUI, but echoing to /dev/tty7 just gives me a permission denied error.






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  • @Thomas notify-send is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! If you post that as an answer, I'll accept it.
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In KDE, I find that if I echo something to pts/0:



me@mypc:~$ echo hello > /dev/pts/0


I get a message flash sent to myself.



I'd like to make a cron job to send similar messages to myself regularly. How can I do this?



P.S. I know that Ctrl+Alt+F7 switches to the GUI, but echoing to /dev/tty7 just gives me a permission denied error.






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  • If you can think of a better title, feel free to change it.
    – cst1992
    Sep 4 '16 at 7:53










  • @Thomas notify-send is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! If you post that as an answer, I'll accept it.
    – cst1992
    Sep 4 '16 at 16:51












up vote
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up vote
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In KDE, I find that if I echo something to pts/0:



me@mypc:~$ echo hello > /dev/pts/0


I get a message flash sent to myself.



I'd like to make a cron job to send similar messages to myself regularly. How can I do this?



P.S. I know that Ctrl+Alt+F7 switches to the GUI, but echoing to /dev/tty7 just gives me a permission denied error.






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share|improve this question















In KDE, I find that if I echo something to pts/0:



me@mypc:~$ echo hello > /dev/pts/0


I get a message flash sent to myself.



I'd like to make a cron job to send similar messages to myself regularly. How can I do this?



P.S. I know that Ctrl+Alt+F7 switches to the GUI, but echoing to /dev/tty7 just gives me a permission denied error.






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  • If you can think of a better title, feel free to change it.
    – cst1992
    Sep 4 '16 at 7:53










  • @Thomas notify-send is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! If you post that as an answer, I'll accept it.
    – cst1992
    Sep 4 '16 at 16:51
















  • If you can think of a better title, feel free to change it.
    – cst1992
    Sep 4 '16 at 7:53










  • @Thomas notify-send is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! If you post that as an answer, I'll accept it.
    – cst1992
    Sep 4 '16 at 16:51















If you can think of a better title, feel free to change it.
– cst1992
Sep 4 '16 at 7:53




If you can think of a better title, feel free to change it.
– cst1992
Sep 4 '16 at 7:53












@Thomas notify-send is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! If you post that as an answer, I'll accept it.
– cst1992
Sep 4 '16 at 16:51




@Thomas notify-send is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! If you post that as an answer, I'll accept it.
– cst1992
Sep 4 '16 at 16:51










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If you want to send a pop up message to a user logged into a Desktop Environment, have a look at notify-send.






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  • And see unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10121/… about accessing X11 from cron.
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Are you looking for the write command? This command allows you to send a message to a given user, which is then printed on his terminal/console. You can optionally specify the tty to send the message to.






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  • I know write already. I'm looking for a GUI alternative.
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If you want to send a pop up message to a user logged into a Desktop Environment, have a look at notify-send.






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  • And see unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10121/… about accessing X11 from cron.
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If you want to send a pop up message to a user logged into a Desktop Environment, have a look at notify-send.






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If you want to send a pop up message to a user logged into a Desktop Environment, have a look at notify-send.






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  • And see unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10121/… about accessing X11 from cron.
    – Gilles
    Sep 5 '16 at 22:14
















  • And see unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10121/… about accessing X11 from cron.
    – Gilles
    Sep 5 '16 at 22:14















And see unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10121/… about accessing X11 from cron.
– Gilles
Sep 5 '16 at 22:14




And see unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10121/… about accessing X11 from cron.
– Gilles
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Are you looking for the write command? This command allows you to send a message to a given user, which is then printed on his terminal/console. You can optionally specify the tty to send the message to.






share|improve this answer




















  • I know write already. I'm looking for a GUI alternative.
    – cst1992
    Sep 4 '16 at 16:50














up vote
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Are you looking for the write command? This command allows you to send a message to a given user, which is then printed on his terminal/console. You can optionally specify the tty to send the message to.






share|improve this answer




















  • I know write already. I'm looking for a GUI alternative.
    – cst1992
    Sep 4 '16 at 16:50












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up vote
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Are you looking for the write command? This command allows you to send a message to a given user, which is then printed on his terminal/console. You can optionally specify the tty to send the message to.






share|improve this answer












Are you looking for the write command? This command allows you to send a message to a given user, which is then printed on his terminal/console. You can optionally specify the tty to send the message to.







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