On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 06:43:26PM +0200, Markus Jonsson wrote:
> tis 2005-10-04 klockan 18:34 +0200 skrev Rodrigo Moya:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:29 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > > Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I have had this patch around for some time, and seems to work pretty
> > > > well, so sending for comments and/or approval.
> > > > 
> > > > It just makes gnome-session display the /etc/motd file on startup, using
> > > > libnotify if available, or an ugly dialog if not. The 2 new files are to
> > > > be placed in gnome-session/gnome-session
> > > 
> > > When we are speaking about support of "old-style" UNIX communication
> > > support, I would like to see "write daemon" in default session -
> > > something which will open a pty and wait for incoming messages (and
> > > being able to translate some of them).
> > > 
> > > Otherwise pure GNOME user without any terminal opened will loose UPS
> > > power failure alert or report about incoming reboot or fatal failure
> > > reports from syslogd.
> > > 
> > gnome-power-manager deals with that now, displaying a dialog to the user
> > when battery power is critical
> 
> What about when the system shuts down? Can I be informed about that? Can
> I be alerted and logged out in a nice way when someone else runs
> shutdown -h on the system?

Wouldn't this be something that libnotify/dbus would deal with?



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