iconmsgs(1L)

NAME
iconmsgs - message arrival notification

SYNOPSIS
iconmsgs [ -s ] [ -x<pos> ] [ -y<pos> ] [ -f<font> ] [ -p<poll> ]

DESCRIPTION
iconmsgs looks for, and announces the arrival of new msgs. When initially invoked, iconmsgs shrinks its window to a bulletin board icon, displaying the number of pending messages as notes tacked to the board. When new messages arrive, iconmsgs rings the bell, and tacks a new message to the bulletin board. If the iconmsgs window is activated when messages are pending, usually by clicking on it with the mouse, iconmsgs creates a larger window with msgs running in it.

While in the msgs window, the middle mouse button activates a menu of commonly used msgs commands.

iconmsgs recognizes the following command line flags:

-s  Don't reshape the window upon iconmsgs invocation.

-x<pos>
    Starting x-coordinate of msgs window.

-y<pos>
    Starting y-coordinate of msgs window.

-f<font_number>
    Font to use for msgs window.

-p<poll interval>
    Look for new messages every poll interval seconds (defaults to 60).

BUGS
Destroying the msgs window while msgs is running is a bad thing to do.

FILES

/usr/spool/msgs/bounds

$HOME/.msgsrc

SEE ALSO
msgs(1) mgr(1L) mgrmsgs(1L)

AUTHOR
S. A. Uhler