Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 01:55:39AM -0700, nate wrote:
> <quote who="Ron Johnson">
> > Using "apt-cache search" doesn't show much. (Unless I'm using
> > the wrong keyword to search by!)
>
>
> while i am not certain what your end goal is, rpc.walld is
> a cool program, it won't do a popup(as far as i know) but it can
> broadcast a message out to connected servers on a network. i
> didn't even know it existed until i saw it in action on one of my
> sun boxes, a NFS server broadcasted to the clients that it was
> shutting down. pretty neat (to me).
>
> i am not sure how(or if) to send a message using it ..
I think xmessage will work over a network via the -display option.
Course, you need permission to connect to the remote X server...
Missed the original post, so not sure if that's what your looking
for...
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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