wall-messages and desktops

[Colin Charles]

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 18:56, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> I just had an incident - or almost had - which reminded me that AFAIK 
> there's no way to receive wall-messages on GNOME (or KDE) unless you 
> happen to have a terminal open. Developers probably always have a terminal 
> or a dozen open at any given time but the casual user might not and thus 
> simply miss a broadcast from root about system going down in 15min (for 
> example) which could be nasty.

There's been a bug open about this for a while:
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114793

I wonder what has happened to the internal RFE that was mentioned
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