[sugar] Display warnings in sugar

[Emiliano Pastorino]

Thanks, Michael!
I was just trying that, but I was missing the XAUTHORITY variable.
I think that's going to do the job by now.


On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:27:21AM -0300, Emiliano Pastorino wrote:
>
> Emiliano,
>
> I'm not sure of the right way to help you in the long term, but if you
> want a quick hack, you might try something like:
>
>  1. Install a cronjob that runs every few minutes.  2. When it runs, it
> should check the available space.  3. If it concludes that space is low, pop
> up a warning.
>
>     Warnings can be simple X or pygtk programs (see the 'dialog' Linux
>     scripts for ideas). To get this hooked up to the running X display,
>     you'll need to set some environment variables:
>
>      DISPLAY=:0
>      XAUTHORITY=/home/olpc/.Xauthority
>
> Ask if you need more help.
>
> Michael
>



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