I need to understand X authorization so if anybody can explain to a bear of little brain :-)
Once-upon-a-time xhost + would allow anybody to write to your display. That is no longer true I have some thin clients (ltsp) running off a server. I actually *really* need to write to the display (as opposed to sending a message ie jabber to to user) eg "This POS is not in operation" I cannot see how xauth would help: The POS daemon program disables terminal say, um 17 and puts a message on terminal 17 "Disabled etc" but neither it (The POS daemon) or the user associated with it are running a display and may not even be the same server as the LTSP server. So my basic problem: I need to put a message (say with xmessage) on a ThinClient DISPLAY whether-or-not that terminal is logged in, and I can't understand the relevant man pages / howtos. I tried asking the ltsp forums and got nervous evasion. Anybody here know? Thanks James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
