Informing other users

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:51:28 +0200
Dieter Schicker <dieter.schicker at uni-graz.at> wrote:

> Scott wrote:
> > ", "Dieter Schicker spake thusy);:
> >   
> >> Peter Garrett wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:54:04 +0200
> >>> Dieter Schicker <dieter.schicker at uni-graz.at> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I already asked this question several weeks ago but didn't get an
> >>>> answer. So I try again:
> >>>>
> >>>> In my network I want to be able to send small informative messages to
> >>>> the users that are currently logged in. I want it that way that a popup
> >>>> window appears on the users screen which shows the message. I heard
> >>>> about linpopup, but it requires samba and I'm not willing to install
> >>>> samba on each workstation.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any ideas?
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> Well, this works with ssh:
> >>>
> >>> ssh user at host xmessage -display :0 "Free Pizza upstairs in 5 minutes"
> >>>
> >>> It isn't very pretty, of course - you could probably use xdialog or zenity
> >>> to do something similar. 
> >>>
> >>> Peter
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Thanks, works great!
> >>
> >> Dieter
> >>     
> >
> > Heh. I learned something new today. I've never had an interest in such a
> > thing, but now I can't wait to setup my other box (my previous one
> > that's that's been collecting dust for 21 months) just to try this out.
> >
> > Sad eh? ;-)
> >
> >
> >   
> No, not sad, but funny! Now I can REALLY annoy my users. ;-)

Annoy them with more *style*  like this:

ssh user at host zenity --info --text="The\ world\ as\ we\ know\ it\ ends
\ in\ 5\ minutes" --display=:0

;-)

For some reason zenity insists on the \ escape before each space....
unless there's an option I missed in my quick examination of the help.

Anyway, this looks nicer than xmessage :-)

Peter

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