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. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
