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