gtkdialog-splash

Provides a popup splash window for shell scripts. Commandline options:

 -text EXPRESSION
 -timeout COUNT (in seconds)
 -icon GTK-XXX (for example: gtk-info all gtk-stock-symbols, default: none)
 -bg COLOR (background color red, blue, yellow..., default: grey)
 -fg COLOR (font color, default: black)
 -placement center|mouse|top|bottom|top-left|bottom-left (default center)
 -close never|mouseover|box (default is mouseover)
 -deco TITLE (shows windows decorations, with title)
 -fontsize SIZE (small, medium, large, x-large, default: large)

Example:
# gtkdialog-splash -placement top -close box -text "This is a message"

gtkdialog-splash was originally written by Puppy Forum member 'mave'.

Note that gtkdialog-splash works best with the JWM window manager, which is setup to treat the 'gtkdialog-splash' class in a special way (see /root/.jwmrc).