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>> Hers is a page that describes using Ubuntu's Notification system: 
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDevelopmentGuidelines
>>
>> I'll have a play with this myself this weekend and see if I can come up 
>> with something.
> 
> A more generic approach, along the same lines, could be to use the
> notification system provided by dbus and supported by most window
> managers using the libnotify system (and the notify-send command).
> The only problem with that approach is that libnotify only supports a
> very little bit of formatting (bold, italic, underline but no colour).

You are correct. The new Ubuntu Notify OSD, which uses libnotify, 
doesn't support things like text colour.

I am hacking together something which creates a gtk Tray Icon and uses a 
standard gtk window for the notification. it's basically working, but I 
need to make the gtk window look more like a Notify window and get a 
grip on the rather complex way gtkTextBuffer marks up text.

Ian.