GUI Notification

[Michael Vogt]

On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:15:51PM -0500, Lukas Sabota wrote:
> Hello!
Hi,

[..]
>    A software solution is required for this problem.  A program is 
> needed to do a few things:
>    1)  Decide whether the user is in an X session or a console login.
>    2)  Display the message accordingly:  Either using standard console 
> output or a MsgBox() sort of function based on GNOME.
> 
> What do you think about this problem?  Is there a solution currently 
> available?  I'd like your thoughts on this problem, thank you.

You may want to look into the notification-dameon package (along with
libnotify, libnotify-bin). It supports sending messages to either the
GUI or a terminal. 

Cheers,
 Michael

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