On Thursday 08 April 2004 16:55, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 15:23:30 +1200
>
> Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 April 2004 15:06, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > assumes you know which X display the desired recipient is on.
> >
> > Indeed, but that's pretty fair assumption in this situation.
>
> maybe but it does highlight the differences doesn't it? windows does a
> hack to send a message to the *computer* - underlying its single user
> heritage. when you try to translate that to a multi user system the
> cracks appear pretty quickly.
>
> tell me how you would do it on a classroom of 20 ltsp clients?

OTTOMH & Full GPL guarantee applies :-)

Ensure that kalarm and kalarmd are in the LTSP file-set and started.
I imagine you'd also have to do an xhost for each client machine somewhere.

for n in $(seq 10 1 29)
do
 kalarm "Time to go home" -display=terminal$n:0.0
done

I'm not sure what happens if the said terminal is off.

I'll try it out the week after next when I have access to the LTSP net.

I assume that the names terminal10 - terminal29 are in the local DNS.

-- 
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell

NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me,
it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine.
Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.

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