D-BUS could certainly be used to fix it, yes. You have to write two pieces, one piece runs systemwide and forwards wall messages over D-BUS; one piece runs in the user session and displays any such messages. Havoc On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 11:56 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Hi, > > I just had an incident - or almost had - which reminded me that AFAIK > there's no way to receive wall-messages on GNOME (or KDE) unless you > happen to have a terminal open. Developers probably always have a terminal > or a dozen open at any given time but the casual user might not and thus > simply miss a broadcast from root about system going down in 15min (for > example) which could be nasty. > > Maybe a job for dbus? Hmm.. I see there are some plans for ACPI-dbus > daemon: http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~occ/cgi-bin/ideas#acpi_dbus_daemon but > that's a very special purpose thing and wont help the wall-case (I'm sure > there are other similar cases as well). > > Thoughts? > > - Panu - > > -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
