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If you use KDE, change the "metacity" on the script to "startkde"... it works
very nice!!!

Good Job, Michael!

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Michael Blinn escreveu:
> I use the attached script to send a broadcast message to my clients
> using zenity. Thanks to Scott Balneaves and others who helped me with it
> on #ltsp - If you save it to /usr/bin then the usage is:
> 
> announce  "The server is going down!"
> 
> -Michael
> 
> Tomasz Lewicki wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm using LTSP 4.2u4 with openSUSE 10.2 (64-bit version) and KDE as desktop 
>> environment with success - thank you LTSP guys! :) System is installed in 
>> university library. 10 terminals have very limited environment - after power 
>> in they log in users (named opac001...opac010) automatically, open Konqueror 
>> in fullscreen mode, turn off all window decorations, Kicker, applets and 
>> keyboard shortcuts. Web browser has only few buttons, no menu, no address 
>> field etc. Home page (one and only possible page) is library's search system 
>> web page. Machines turn off automatically (using 
>> ltspinfo -h=wsxxx --shutdown) 5 minutes before library closing time.
>>
>> Another 4 terminals have less limited environment. People use them for web 
>> browsing in search of scientifical materials, for simple wordprocessing 
>> [Ctrl+C -> Ctrl+V ;)] and for printing some documents. These four machines 
>> are using KDE too.
>>
>> It would be great to automagically send some messages to logged in clients, 
>> especially at the end of day. Let's say library closes at 7pm. I want to 
>> inform people standing before terminals' screens at 6:45pm with some dialog 
>> window that they should end their work because terminals will shut down in 
>> 10 
>> minutes. I want do it with cron and native KDE's 'kdialog' preferably. I'm 
>> not sitting in front of terminal server, but control it with SSH session.
>>
>> How can I make it? 
>>   
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> #!/bin/bash
> 
> for PID in $(pgrep metacity); do
>    DISPLAY=$(cat /proc/${PID}/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep DISPLAY | sed -e 
> 's/DISPLAY=//')
>    XAUTHORITY=$(cat /proc/${PID}/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep XAUTH | sed -e 
> 's/XAUTHORITY=//')
>    zenity --info --text="$1" &
> done
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