Re: Notify all users
Yan Seiner wrote: How do I go about notifying all users? I am looking for an equivalent of 'wall' for X. xmessage doesn't really work very well as I'd have to mess with xhost in each user's profile. I've looked at libnotify, but it runs into dbus security issues. So how does a sysadmin notify all users of an impending system event (like a shutdown)? I think you are probably on roughly the right lines with libnotify, but not the library itself, more the specification. I guess some sort of event from hal or similar should be exposed to all users via dbus and some sort of process (e.g. the notification notification daemon that displays messages conforming to the FDO notification spec - the kind libnotify generates) will be responsible for displaying said message to each user. I'm not very clued up with dbus to know much about how the system and session buses interact etc. but I think this is the right general approach. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: Notify all users
On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Yan Seiner wrote: How do I go about notifying all users? I am looking for an equivalent of 'wall' for X. xmessage doesn't really work very well as I'd have to mess with xhost in each user's profile. I've looked at libnotify, but it runs into dbus security issues. So how does a sysadmin notify all users of an impending system event (like a shutdown)? What is wrong with just using wall? --Yan ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If at first you don't succeed, work for Microsoft. ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: Notify all users
Gene Heskett schrieb: On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Yan Seiner wrote: How do I go about notifying all users? I am looking for an equivalent of 'wall' for X. xmessage doesn't really work very well as I'd have to mess with xhost in each user's profile. I've looked at libnotify, but it runs into dbus security issues. So how does a sysadmin notify all users of an impending system event (like a shutdown)? What is wrong with just using wall? Does wall display anything for users running X? No. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: Notify all users
Gene Heskett schrieb: On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Gene Heskett schrieb: On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Yan Seiner wrote: How do I go about notifying all users? I am looking for an equivalent of 'wall' for X. xmessage doesn't really work very well as I'd have to mess with xhost in each user's profile. I've looked at libnotify, but it runs into dbus security issues. So how does a sysadmin notify all users of an impending system event (like a shutdown)? What is wrong with just using wall? Does wall display anything for users running X? No. How did you disable that? Here it echo's to every open shell and opens a message window on windows without open shells on them. Do you really think every Joe and Mary has a shell window opened? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
