Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 04:53, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> 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...
I'll check out both rpc.walld. Unfortunately, I don't see a -display
option to xmessage. Otherwise, it looks perfect...
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