On Monday 02 July 2007 21:20, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host > in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should > open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed. > > The purpose is to inform me or other people in the house about incoming > phone calls. At the moment I just set the DISPLAY variable and open an > xterm displaying the message, but that involves using xhost, and is not > that sophisticated. KDE can be assumed to be running on all the systems. > > There is the Winpopup plugin for kopete > (<http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete+Winpopup>), which > makes it respond to messages sent via NET SEND from a Windows host, or > smbclient -M from a linux host. But it does not seem to be enabled by > default. kopete has a use flag (winpopup), but I am using monolithic > ebuilds, and kdenetwork does not know about it. Could this be a bug to > report? > Anyway, there would be some more problems with that. smbclient -M takes a > few seconds until it sends, I would need to find the cause first. And I > assume that kopete would display a little notification in the taskbar > first, which must be clicked at, while I want a window to open immediately. > > Any ideas? It's not that important, but I thought I'd ask, maybe someone > knows a cool solution. If not, I will write a little daemon script, waiting > for a message file arriving in a shared directory, and displaying it in an > xterm. This way I avoid the use of xhost.
Will this do? http://www.gerdfleischer.de/klinpopup.php -- Regards, Mick
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