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Re: Root sending messages to users



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On 06/23/08 22:07, Rich Healey wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 06/23/08 21:36, Rich Healey wrote:
>>> s. keeling wrote:
>>>> Rich Healey <healey.rich@gmail.com>:
>>>>>  Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new
>>>>>  windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically
>>>>>  illiterate housemate.
>>>>>
>>>>>  That and putting xeyes all over his desktop remotely is hilarious.
>>>> Whatever happened to xroach?
>>> sorry dud link, this one is live.
>>> ftp://ftp.lf.net/pub/Mirrors/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.10-RELEASE/packages/Latest/xroach.tgz
>> v4.10 is quite old.  I wonder why they dropped it from subsequent
>> releases.  Bit rot?
> 
> I've just build xroach 4.03 from potato.. either a) my WM doesn't like it
> 
> or b) X has changed too much in that time.

What error(s) did you get?

The X protocols haven't changed in decades.  But gcc has.  I'm
betting that there was some coding practices that were allowed in
gcc 2.9 (3.0?) that have funky side effects now.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

"Kittens give Morbo gas.  In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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