Is there a gnome or KDE or Xorg version of wall for gui

[Didar Hossain]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Fernando Cassia<fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Leslie Satenstein<lsatenstein at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> From what I note, wall is geared to terminals that function in ascii mode.
>>
>> Is there a wall command for Gnome, KDE, or Xorg, so that I can alert a gui
>> user about some event?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenity
> http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/259/a-complete-zenity-dialog-examples-1/
>
> FC

AFAIK there is no `wall' equivalent for the X Window environment. The
`wall' command writes messages to the "tty" terminals, whereas X
window uses a different mechanism.

You will need to write your own tool to do this. A basic idea can be
to use the D-Bus to send notification/message to a Gnome or KDE applet
specifically created for this purpose. Hmmm, a good project to do :-)

Didar