Re: Is there a Wall message for GNOME or KDE

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Arthur Pemberton wrote: > KDE, at least 3.5, acknowledges standard wall messages KDE 4 still does this, you get a notification from kwrited. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: h

Re: Is there a Wall message for GNOME or KDE

2009-06-26 Thread Robert L Cochran
I just used `shutdown -h +6 The system is going down now, please logoff.` as root, in a terminal window. It prints the message in the terminal window every minute, along with its own default message. But it will not cause a Gnome window to open up with the message. I discovered that even if yo

Re: Is there a Wall message for GNOME or KDE

2009-06-26 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > I would like to send an alert about a system change or an alert to all gnome > users that the system is going offline for maintenance at a certain time. > > What is the equivalent to the wall function that pops up a window in kde or > gno

Is there a Wall message for GNOME or KDE

2009-06-26 Thread Leslie Satenstein
I would like to send an alert about a system change or an alert to all gnome users that the system is going offline for maintenance at a certain time. What is the equivalent to the wall function that pops up a window in kde or gnome with the message in a window that must be acknowledged. -