[K12OSN] send message to specific user(s) with xmessage?

[Calvin Park]

Hmmm...interesting. I have no idea how to start it standard in Gnome.
But I'm not sure that will help Huck, since he's running ICEWM....will
kwrited run under ICEWM? So, I'll stop now before I was anyone elses
time with my fairly useless message.

-Calvin

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 10:25, Henry Burroughs wrote:
> The program "kwrited" will run in the background under Gnome.  So all
> that means is we have to figure out how to start up "kwrited"
> automatically for all users under Gnome when they login (part of their
> session?).  Any hints?
> 
> Henry Burroughs
> 
> 
> > From: Huck <dhuckaby at paasda.org>
> > To: linuxsys at davisny.edu, Support list for opensource software in schools. <k12osn at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: [K12OSN] send message to specific user(s) with xmessage?
> > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:33:16 -0700
> > 
> > apparently this only works with KDE...and my need for bandwidth is such 
> > that I need to use ICEWM...
> > 
> > if I could find packages for python-osd  and relavent dependancies I 
> > could solve the issue another way...
> > but so far no luck with that either =)
> > 
> > K12LTSP 4.1.0  is my distro
> > 
> > --Huck
> > 
> > Calvin Park wrote:
> > 
> > >We found a solution to this problem for our needs. Our Computer Center
> > >closes at 10:00PM every night (at a College here) and so we wanted to
> > >broadcast messages to all terminals at 9:45, 9:55, and 10:00 letting
> > >users know that the lab would be closing. After a few hours in the LTSP
> > >and KDE irc channels we found that the command
> > >
> > >echo Your Message Here | wall
> > >
> > >works quite well. It will broadcast a message to all terminals...and as
> > >near as I've been able to figure KDE listens for echo with | wall and
> > >broadcasts the message to all users (even if they are in a GUI instead
> > >of the command line) using kwrited
> > >
> > >So, This solution may not work at all if you're using GNOME. But it has
> > >been a great help to us. Also, using the write command from a terminal
> > >window has allowed our computer center techs to warn particular users.
> > >Same thing, set mesg to yes, use the write command to a specific user
> > >type in your message and it will pop up in kwrited on their screen. For
> > >instance:
> > >
> > >write jdoe 
> > >Hey man...how's it going?
> > >ctrl+c
> > >
> > >Very handy. Again, I don't know if this will work with GNOME. 
> > >
> > >Hope this all made sense. Let me know if it didn't.
> > >
> > >-Calvin
> > >
> > >On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 12:32, Huck wrote:
> > >  
> > >