[02:47] <LucaCappelletti> hello :)
[11:32]  * Keybuk wonders why his first instinct when writing a document is still TeX
[12:19] <DktrKranz> could a sponsor for main review scons merge ( bug 226783 ) ? thanks
[13:38] <Nikratio> ﻿I would like to display a notification message in the system tray from a cron script, similar to the one presented after a kernel upgrade. How can I do that? I couldn't find any hint in the postinst script of the kernel images..
[13:39] <laga> you're probabyl looking for the notification daemon
[13:40] <Nikratio> laga: might be. So how can I connect to it / use it?
[13:40] <RAOF> Actually, you're probably after update-notifier.
[13:40] <laga> yeah, what he said. :)
[13:40] <RAOF> Basically, you want to dump a file in /var/lib/user.d.  The kernel postinst should be doing this; that's what you're looking for.
[13:41] <Nikratio> Is the format of the file documented somewhere? It seems there are some special headers in there
[13:43] <RAOF> I don't believe that it is.  Or, at least, I don't recall finding such documentation when I was writing one for Xgl.
[13:44] <Nikratio> I just dropped a file there and it didn't do anything
[13:44] <stdin> in /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/ ?
[13:44] <Nikratio> yes
[13:44] <laga> is update-notifier an ubuntu specific thing?
[13:45] <RAOF> Yes.
[13:46] <laga> that'd explain the lack of documentation :)
[13:47] <Nikratio> I just downloaded the source. There seems to be some documentation in there
[13:49] <Nikratio> Ok, one also has to touch /var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-was-run
[13:49] <Nikratio> but this is actually not the kind of message that I meant
[13:50] <Nikratio> With update-notifier, one has to click on the small lamp icon and then the message is displayed in a window. I want to generate a message that directly pops up in the (default) lower right corner
[13:59] <Nikratio> Ok, I got it. If someone else is interested: such messages can be generated with the libnotify-bin package.
[13:59] <laga> cool, thanks
[23:17] <brandonperry> is gdmsetup broken?
[23:17] <brandonperry> never starts for me, just hangs
[23:18] <brandonperry> hrm, nevermind
[23:18] <brandonperry> just took forever to start