Re: Notification escape sequences

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> I am proposing an escape sequence which, when transmitted over SSH
> or telnet, requests the client to display a desktop notification.  I
> have written up a description, with some example code, at

If you're going to do something this insecure, just use wall/rwall.  Why
reinvent the wheel?

And teach gnome to display it as a notification if it cannot do that already
(KDE4 can, and does).

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