Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> writes:

> http://emacs-fu.blogspot.de/2009/11/showing-pop-ups.html
> looks promising.

This is what I use:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/notify.el

Charles

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