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From: jwade@trc.amoco.com (Joe M. Wade)
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Subject: Re: The equivilent of /etc/wall in the X environment
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Date: 19 Nov 90 20:02:02 GMT
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In article <JWZ.90Nov14125539@kolyma.lucid.com>, jwz@lucid.com (Jamie
Zawinski) writes:
|> 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

There is an application called contool which runs under X in its 
latest incarnation. I believe the source was posted under
comp.windows.misc in the last few months. Be forewarned though, it
uses an OpenLook user interface and you need the xview library to 
build it. The author in the man page is Chuck Musciano at
chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com. I've been using it for a couple of
months and really like it. Filtering of console messages may be 
done, which enable you to prioritize your messages. It has the 
capabilities of automatically opening the console,beeping,flashing of
the icon,timestamping messages, or kicking off a command which you 
specify. (audio is nice....)

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