Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Notifications to all users in X sessions?

2012-11-06 Thread James Linder
On 07/11/2012, at 5:28 AM, ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: >> For a Lubuntu LTSP network powered by a UPS, during a power outage I want to >> notify all users in all X sessions with a popup message saying that the >> system >> is running on battery and about to be shut down. >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Notifications to all users in X sessions?

2012-11-06 Thread John Hupp
On 11/1/2012 7:24 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 03:28:04PM -0400, John Hupp wrote: For a Lubuntu LTSP network powered by a UPS, during a power outage I want to notify all users in all X sessions with a popup message saying that the system is running on battery and about t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Notifications to all users in X sessions?

2012-11-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 01/11/2012 08:29 μμ, ο/η Jay Goldberg έγραψε: > > Another hint may be that Alkis Georgopoulos' great tool Epoptes > offers the option to broadcast messages, the > source mayb reveal how this is done. Now that I think about it, though, > it will be using the Epoptes c

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Notifications to all users in X sessions?

2012-11-01 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 03:28:04PM -0400, John Hupp wrote: > For a Lubuntu LTSP network powered by a UPS, during a power outage I want to > notify all users in all X sessions with a popup message saying that the system > is running on battery and about to be shut down. ... > I imagine that there i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Notifications to all users in X sessions?

2012-11-01 Thread Jay Goldberg
Hi Andreas, Another hint may be that Alkis Georgopoulos' great tool Epoptesoffers the option to broadcast messages, the source mayb reveal how this is done. Now that I think about it, though, it will be using the Epoptes client running in the user's X session. On Wed, Oct

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Notifications to all users in X sessions?

2012-10-31 Thread Andreas Schamanek
So far, I have only mastered the notification of single users (using xmessage). I am afraid there's no ''xwall''. 2 Q&As that I found seem to confirm this: X11 send notification to all users on all DISPLAY's - Unix and Linux http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43212/x11-send-notification-to

[Ltsp-discuss] Notifications to all users in X sessions?

2012-10-31 Thread John Hupp
I am re-approaching a question I first began chewing on in the thread "A script for shutting down an LTSP client from the host?" For a Lubuntu LTSP network powered by a UPS, during a power outage I want to notify all users in all X sessions with a popup message saying that the system is runnin