wall-messages and desktops

[Havoc Pennington]

D-BUS could certainly be used to fix it, yes. You have to write two
pieces, one piece runs systemwide and forwards wall messages over D-BUS;
one piece runs in the user session and displays any such messages.

Havoc

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 11:56 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just had an incident - or almost had - which reminded me that AFAIK 
> there's no way to receive wall-messages on GNOME (or KDE) unless you 
> happen to have a terminal open. Developers probably always have a terminal 
> or a dozen open at any given time but the casual user might not and thus 
> simply miss a broadcast from root about system going down in 15min (for 
> example) which could be nasty.
> 
> Maybe a job for dbus? Hmm.. I see there are some plans for ACPI-dbus
> daemon:  http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~occ/cgi-bin/ideas#acpi_dbus_daemon but
> that's a very special purpose thing and wont help the wall-case (I'm sure 
> there are other similar cases as well).
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 	- Panu -
> 
>