<div>On 09/01/2008, Chris Smith <<a href="mailto:ubuntu.com@chris.cs278.org">ubuntu.com@chris.cs278.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Kris Douglas wrote: > Hi, thanks for the help, I tried this before, and got the message > > > libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: dbus-launch failed to > autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. > > > 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? > What you need to do when logged in remotely as root is: DISPLAY=:0; XAUTHORITY=~owner_of:0/.Xauthority; export DISPLAY XAUTHORITY You will probably need to parse the output of `who` for the display and user name, that way you can send the message to everyone who is logged in to X on that machine. Also checkout zenity. Chris -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk </a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> Hi, I got the following: media@media-centre-1:~$ DISPLAY=:0; XAUTHORITY=~owner_of:0/.Xauthority; export DISPLAY XAUTHORITY media@media-centre-1:~$ notify-send "title message" "Message body text"         libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Xlib: connection to ": 0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. -- Kris Douglas       Softdel Limited Hosting Services       Web: <a href="http://www.softdel.net">www.softdel.net</a>       Mail: <a href="mailto:kris@softdel.net">kris@softdel.net</a>