On Tuesday 09 of September 2008, Hal V. Engel wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 09:25:13 am John Tapsell wrote: > > 2008/9/9 Jason Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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? > > > > KDE used to have a demon 'kwrited' that would simply listen for > > 'wall' messages and then display them to the user. > > > > This code probably just needs a bit of cleaning up and would probably > > work again. > > > > Something similar could be done for gnome > > I just did a quick test with KDE 4.1 and kwrited is working and popping up > a message box that has messages sent with wall. So it is working at least > for more recent versions of KDE.
Actually it has generally worked since ages. The factor deciding when it's broken is IIRC the distro's failure to link it properly with libutempter. > I would think that the daemon could be > modified without too much difficulty to pop up a generic X (IE. non-KDE or > Qt specific) message box if that is not already the case. > > To configure this go to System Settings --> Advanced --> Service Manager > and make sure that KDE Write Daemon is checked in the Startup Services > area. It should be enabled by default. I would like to also point out that all libnotify-based solutions are GNOME-only (or GNOME+Xfce, whatever). -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg