Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!sl
From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Multiscreens - which one is active?
Keywords: who
Message-ID: <41@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 89 05:44:00 GMT
References: <11@dynasys.UUCP> <55@gutarman.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
Lines: 19

In article <55@gutarman.UUCP> robert@gutarman.UUCP () writes:
>In article <11@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher - Sysadmin.) writes:
>Anyhow, When I log into doug's computer, I usually do a who -u.  The 4th
>coloumn is the "idle" time.  This way, you can tell what the console user
>is doing.  The who -u tells keyboard idleness, so if they are running a
>program, and doing a lot of typing (like lyrix), then the idle time will
>be null.  Hope this helps.  It does get confusing, though.


You can also try things like:

	echo "Hello - please call me" > /dev/mono

this will generally go to the active screen. Of course you will have to
figure out which of /dev/{[cepv]ga,mono} is actually available on your
system.

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