Finally, wall- and winpopup-style messages in the GNOME desktop
This is gonna be absolutely awesome, and potentially extremely useful for our company, since we run an LTSP terminal server, and only our KDE users get the famous “X minutes before shutdown” message submitted by wall when reboots or downtimes are scheduled.
Here it is: Ikke’s Blog - Good old messaging
Tips for the writer:
- Catching
wallmessages is actually easy, all you have to do is open a pty likekwriteddoes, and that makes it possible. - Of course, catching
writemessages would actually require that the writer writes to your opened pty directly. - And catching
talkmessages wouldn’t be bad nor difficult, if you could keep a lightweighttalkdthat relayedtalkrequests to your running Gossip or Gaim instance and used the popup mechanism to announce talk sessions, much likektalkddoes.