On Tue, September 9, 2008 8:45 am, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Yan Seiner schrieb: >> On Tue, September 9, 2008 8:34 am, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> 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? >> >> Because most of my users will not have a terminal session open. >> Typically >> they use a browser full-screen, so I need a popup to notify them. > > I guess you need an imaginary "xwall" command.
:-) Bingo. That's what I am looking for. I've found some ugly hacks using libnotify, dbus, and proc that should work under gnome and xfce. I'll see if I can hack up that xwall command. --Yan -- o__ ,>/'_ o__ (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Personal Trainer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Professional Engineer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ Who says engineers have to be pencil necked geeks? (_)\(_) As long as nobody gets hurt, a decent explosion livens up any experiment. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg