Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!shelby!neon!lucid.com!jwz From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: The equivilent of /etc/wall in the X environment Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 20:55:39 GMT References: <2131@engadm2.csd.mot.com> Sender: jwz@lucid.com Distribution: na Organization: Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA Lines: 16 In-reply-to: cliff@motcsd.csd.mot.com's message of 13 Nov 90 20:44:29 GMT In article <2131@engadm2.csd.mot.com> cliff@motcsd.csd.mot.com (Cliff Rodriguez) wrote: > > [/etc/wall doesn't work that well because] If you are in an application > that is not making use of a tty (xterm) then you won't see any messages. > Has anyone seen or have some ideas about some kind of messaging service in > X/motif that a systems admin can send out? [...] > Maybe this could be like a virtual console where there is a severity level > in messages you can get. If you see a the icon flashing maybe you would > check it (or it flashes the background or something)......cliff What I would like to see is an application that does what "xterm -C" does (grabs all system messages, things written on /dev/console, etc) except that this app would automatically uniconify itself when a new message appeared. -- Jamie