Is there a Wall message for GNOME or KDE

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Leslie
Satenstein<lsatenstein at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I would like to send an alert about a system change or an alert to all gnome
> users that the system is going offline for maintenance at a certain time.
>
> What is the equivalent to the wall function that pops up a window in kde or
> gnome with the message in a window that must be acknowledged.

KDE, at least 3.5, acknowledges standard wall messages, though i was not forced.

But regular wall isn't forced either.

I am not sure any current OS has mandatory remotely sent messaging.

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