wall-messages and desktops

[jludwig]

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 01:57, Colin Charles wrote:
> 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
> -- 
> Colin Charles, byte at aeon.com.my
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> "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
> then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
Wall seems to do fine on my systems using KDE.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>