XALERT(1)

NAME
xalert - display new mail alerts

SYNOPSIS
xalert [-filename file] [-user user] [-port number] [-bell] [-nobell] [-autoraise] [-noautoraise] [-photos] [-nophotos] [-s] [-t] [-x] [-w width] [generic X options]

DESCRIPTION
Xalert is a simple program designed to display new message alerts on a display running the X windowing system. it does very little else, relying on its client to do all the hard work. The program normally tries to start as an X client. If this fails it acceps new messages from the client and displays them to the users terminal.

It has the following options

-filename file set the alert filename that xalert and
    flagmail communicate via. This defaults to the file .alert in your home directory. This file is created by xalert and read by flagmail. This is also settable via the X resource string fileName.

-user username
    Allows you to pretend to be the given user. This does not really do much as you will generally only get notified of messages to you, but it may be useful. This is settable by the X resource string userName.

-port number
    Change the default udp port that xalert and flagmail communicate via (normally selected by the system). This is settable by the X resource integer port.

-bell / -nobell
    Ring or don't ring the bell when a new message arrives. This is settable by the X resource boolean bell

-autoraise / -noautoraise Raise or don't raise the window to the top
    of the stack on each new message. This is settable by the X resource boolean autoRaise.

-photos / -nophotos
    Display the senders photograph as retrieved from the directory on each new message. This is settable by the X resource boolean photos.

-s  Only attempt to print to the standard output - do not search for all occurances of this user logged in.

-t  Do not attempt to start as an X client.

-x  Allow use of X.

-w width
    Truncate to this width when displaying on terminals.

It is also quite useful as a clipboard...

FILES
~/.alert    The default alert file.

SEE ALSO
flagmail(1), ttyalert(1)
PP Manual - Volume 3: User Manual

BUGS
Ought to sing, dance and make coffee.
Sometimes searching for a photograph can take a while - especially if the photo is big!