[K12OSN] Making a message pop up on a thin client

[Michael Blinn]

Here's a script that uses zenity. Thanks to sbalneaves & ogra in #ltsp 
who put it together a few months ago.  This goes to all connected 
clients but I'm sure you can modify for just one.

Invoke it with

#scriptname  "This is my message"

-Michael

#!/bin/bash

for PID in $(pgrep metacity); do
   DISPLAY=$(cat /proc/${PID}/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep DISPLAY | 
sed -e 's/DISPLAY=//')
   XAUTHORITY=$(cat /proc/${PID}/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep XAUTH | 
sed -e 's/XAUTHORITY=//')
   zenity --info --text="$1" &
done



Nadav Kavalerchik wrote:
> checkout Robert's TeacherTool: 
> http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/
> it does what you want and much more :-)
>
> On 10/5/07, *Carl Keil* <carl at snarlnet.com <mailto:carl at snarlnet.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hey Folks,
>
>     I've always wondered about sneaky thin client tricks.  It seems like
>     there's got to be a way to blast some audio or pop up a message on a
>     thin client remotely, like from the command line.  Does anybody
>     know how
>     to do that?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     ck
>
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