determine a display used by gnome-session

[Jeff Hanson]

> From: Staszek Hodur <staho at os.pl>
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Cc:
> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:44:05 +0100
> Subject: determine a display used by gnome-session
> Hi all,
> I am trying to write a simple script to control the amount of time my kids are spending at the computer. Fortunately, there are no Windows, no Gates etc. :-)
>
> The script is supposed to run in cron. If the time is up, the script will display a message and close the session. I can get all the X sessions and all the Gnome session, say:
> # ps -fe
> ...

I suggest using notify-send as root to send the message unless you
need to check some kind of response from the user.