Unix Programming - Pop-up window in daemon

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Pop-up window in daemon

Jeff

2004-01-23, 5:00 pm

Hi,

I've written a daemon in C and I'd like that daemon to create a
pop-up window on a certain condition in the console using a windowing
toolkit of my choice. The problem is once the daemon is detached to
the background, it is detached from the console. How can I have a
background process open a window in the console? If it matters, I'd
like to do this in GTK. A simple solution is to create the popup
window as a separate program with a main function. Then the daemon
can spawn a new process and launch the window. But I'd prefer to
include the window in the daemon.

TIA,
Jeff