LinPopUp - A Linux port of Winpopup, running over Samba.

linpopup [ -min ] [ -info ]

LinPopUp is a Xwindow port of Winpopup, running over Samba. It permits to communicate with a Windows computer that runs Winpopup, sending or receiving message. (It also provides an alternative way to communicate between Linux computers that run Samba).

-min

Will start LinPopUp minimized. LinPopUp will maximize itself each time a new message arrives. This feature was specially implemented to automatically start LinPopUp via .Xclient or .xinitrc file.

-info

LinPopUp will give some useful information about system configuration and immediately exits. Use it if something goes wrong or/and when reporting a bug.

/var/lib/linpopup/messages.dat

Where message are kept.

~/.linpopuprc

Configuration file, where the preferences are stored. Not an ASCII file, so don't try to edit it.

~.linpopup.history History file where are kept last used send address. Will be automatically created/updated.

To be able to receive messages that are sent to you, you will need to edit the smb.conf file (generally found in /etc directory; Debian users will find it as /etc/samba/smb.conf) and to add this line to the [global settings] section :

message command = /usr/bin/linpopup %f %m CB%s; rm CB%s

PLEASE NOTE that "%f" is not the same thing as CW%f , '%f' or `%f`. If you enter a wrong message command, you will probably not receive some (only a few in fact) of the messages that are sent to you.

Running LinPopUp with three arguments may give imprevisible results. Only Samba can run it this way via the message command.

LinPopUp doesn't need to always run. If you close it, it will continues to receive all messages that are send to you. You can even quit Xwindow, and still receive messages. In fact, the only way to miss a message that was sent to you is to have your computer turned off.

Messages are kept from session to session. You will always retrieve a message that was sent to you, ... if you have not deleted it.

You will obtain more information about using and configuring LinPopUp by running it under Xwindow and looking at the Help menu.

Samba as well as the Gimp ToolKit GTK+ >= 1.2.0 are required.

None known, ... that I was able to reproduce ;-)

LinPopUp Copyright (C)1998-1999 Little Igloo Org is freely distributable under the GNU Public License, a copy of which you should have received with this software (in a file called COPYING).

You can get the last LinPopUp version, sources or binaries distribution, RedHat or Debian Packages, at : http://www.littleigloo.org

Jean-Marc Jacquet <jm@littleigloo.org>

This man page was originally writen by Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>. But, as I made some changes to it, any grammar/spelling errors are exclusively copyrighted by ME.

samba(7), smbclient(1), smb.conf(5), testparm(1).