I think the imaginary "xwall" won't work because each user has it's own X session.
How possibly a program determine all running X sessions? On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 17:45 +0200, 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. > > -- *********************************** Jason Kim, Software Developer http://userful.com 2nd Floor, 928-6th Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 0V5 Tel: 403-289-2177 EXT: 210 866-USERFUL (873-7385) Fax: 403-206-7010 _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg