Chuck Robey schrieb: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> Gene Heskett schrieb: >>> 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? >> Does "wall" display anything for users running X? No. >> > > Depends if they're running terminals on X ... every terminal, X or not (like > KDE's konsole) will echo whatever you send via wall. > > I don't know what non-programmers susally do, do they usually need (as a > minimum) a login terminal, or not? I would imagine they do, but I am just not > certain about that.
Non-technical users tend to ask: "what's this black window" whenever they see a terminal window in their KDE / Gnome session. Those more "techy" non-technical users would say: "I didn't know this *nix still needs MS-DOS to run". -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
