wall-messages and desktops

DALive Editor dalive at flashmail.com
Mon Sep 27 04:24:55 UTC 2004


jludwig wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 01:57, Colin Charles wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 18:56, Panu Matilainen wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>      
>>>
>>There's been a bug open about this for a while:
>>	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114793
>>
>>I wonder what has happened to the internal RFE that was mentioned
>>-- 
>>Colin Charles, byte at aeon.com.my
>>http://www.bytebot.net/
>>"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
>>then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
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>>
>Wall seems to do fine on my systems using KDE.
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>
I must admit that I always have a terminal open, but KWrited picks up 
wall messages, and I did not have to ask it to.





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