On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Yan Seiner wrote: >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. > >--Yan
Well, the pop up was actually a pop under here. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Nice guys don't finish nice. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
