On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Alessandro Bottoni wrote: > I'm looking for a tool that can be used like the venerable Unix "write" > command in the KDE environment. In other words, I need a way to send a > (text) message to another user of the same (Linux/BSD) machine and > pop-up a QT/KDE message box in his/her KDE Desktop. > > This need is the consequence of the use of tools like timeoutd, pyttymon > and autolog. As you probably know, these toosl are used to limit the > time a user can stay connected to a Unix (and X11) session. > Unfortunately, the warning messages sent by these tools are addressed to > the user's TTY console and are not visibile in the KDE (or Gnome) desktop. > > I know of KNotify but I wonder if there is another, maybe simpler way to > perform such a task. > > I understand I could use Kopete o Pidgin to send/receive such messages > but I would like to use a system that does not require any kind of user > registration (put aside the existing Unix account). > > Any suggestion? If I understand you correctly you mainly need the receiver part of this, right? I think there is a KDE service somewhere under KDE Components in KDE's control center, which can listen for write messages and display them. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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