On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Andrew Sands <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone have any thoughts on how I might implement a GUI message-of-the-day.
Write a small pop-up application that uses zenity to display an info box ... zenity --info --text="$(cat /etc/motd)" Call it from each user's Startup Applications (for a Gnome system), or perhaps in .xinitrc if you have a bare-bones setup. For Ubuntu at least, /etc/gdm/Xsession seems to be worth looking at, it seems to run everything in /etc/X11/Xsession.d -- that would make a system-wide setting easy ... so dump your zenity-invoking script in there with a number prefix like 85 or something, and your motd text will pop up before the user desktop loads. -jim
