On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Fernando Cassia<fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Leslie Satenstein<lsatenstein@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
