Hi, thanks for the help, I tried this before, and got the message<br><br><br>libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.<br><br>
<br>It appeares i would have to actually be on the X server to run it, do you know of a way to specify the location the message is sent to? like display :0?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 09/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Josh Blacker</b> <<a href="mailto:jkblacker@gmail.com">jkblacker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I believe you are looking for something like notify-send:<br><br>notify-send "Title of pop-up" "Text of pop-up"<br><br>(screenshot of one at<br><a href="http://jerichokb.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/screenshot2.png">
http://jerichokb.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/screenshot2.png</a>)<br><br>I suppose you would ssh into a machine and run it from the command-line?<br>I have no experience of ssh, so couldn't tell you about that, but I've
<br>answered one half at least!<br><br>Hope that helps,<br>Josh<br><br>On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 16:33 +0000, Kris Douglas wrote:<br>> Hi, I have been looking for ages without any success, I'm trying to<br>> work out how to send popup notifications with custom content to
<br>> computers on the network. I have ssh and root access to all of these<br>> machines, but i require a simple way to send messages, any ideas?<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>><br>> --<br>> Kris Douglas<br>> Softdel Limited Hosting Services
<br>><br>> Web: <a href="http://www.softdel.net">www.softdel.net</a><br>> Mail: <a href="mailto:kris@softdel.netwould">kris@softdel.netwould</a> be a good time<br><br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kris Douglas<br> Softdel Limited Hosting Services<br><br> Web: <a href="http://www.softdel.net">www.softdel.net</a><br> Mail: <a href="mailto:kris@softdel.net">
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