#!/bin/sh
# yell - abuse xterm for popup messages
# originally by smarry@vex.net.

# Start an xterm exactly big enough for the string, echo it and the
# control sequence that turns on sending the mouse position on button
# press, set the TTY to non-canonical blocking input, read one character,
# and exit.

SPEW="$*" \
xterm +sb -geometry `echo -n "$*"|wc -c`x1+100+100 \
  -e sh -c 'echo -n "[?9h$SPEW"
            tput civis
            stty -echo -icanon min 1 time 0
            dd bs=1 count=1 >/dev/null 2>&1'