It's not KDE, but I have used xmessage to do exactly what you seem to be
looking for.
Richard Wilson
E.D.S.
Richard dot wilson at eds dot com
-----Original Message-----
From: Alessandro Bottoni [mailto:alexbottoni@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:39 PM
To: kde@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Any KDE GUI-based equivalent of the Unix "write" command?
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?
--
Alessandro Bottoni
Website: http://www.alessandrobottoni.it/
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