pop-up notices for all gnome users

[dabicho]

You need to set the DISPLAY variable for that.
If you can be sure it will not change, then something like

DISPLAY=localhost:0 zenity ...
might work.

of course, I don't know whether or not you can always expect your
users to be running on that display only.

On 8/23/05, Paul Keyes <paul_s_keyes at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Thanks.  This is helpful.  I have a followup question:
> I want to schedule a zenity command via cron as root
> to have a window appear every 30 minutes for any user
> who may be loggeg in.  When trying this I get the cron
> error:
> 
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
> 
> 
> (zenity:6093): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> 
> 
> Do you know how to solve this?
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Esteban Xandri <esteban.xandri at speedy.com.ar>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 15:55 -0400, Paul Keyes wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I need to create a pop-up window notice to all
> > users
> > > when they log in to their gnome desktop.
> >
> > man zenity
> >
> >
> > >  I'm using
> > > Fedora Core 3 (kernel: 2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrma).
> >
> > > Does gnome have a way to do this already?
> > > I couldn't find one so I created my own little app
> > > (c++, gtk) to display the info in a  window and I
> > run
> > > it for all users by adding an appropriate entry to
> > > /usr/share/gnome/default.session
> > > This almost works, but for some reason the gnome
> > > startup display stays open and blocks my window.
> > If I
> > > click on the "stuck" gnome startup display it
> > > dissapears and I can see my window.  I think this
> > > little bug will confuse users.  Does anyone know a
> > way
> > > around this/why the startup window gets "stuck"?
> > > Any advice is greatly appreciated.
> > > --Paul
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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