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From: tim@cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen)
Subject: [xpert] Re: X Terminal message displayer
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.230718.5174@ox.com>
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Keywords: wall xwall message Xterminals
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References: <1024@ticnj.UUCP> <1991Apr23.150757.11258@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 23:07:18 GMT
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Archive-name: x11/notifier/xwall/1991-04-23
Archive: shorty.cs.wisc.edu:pub/xwall.tar.Z  [128.105.2.8]
Original-posting-by: tim@cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen)
Original-subject: Re: X Terminal message displayer
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

In article <1024@ticnj.UUCP>, srs@ticnj.UUCP (Scott Strool) writes:
|> Does anybody no of a program that has the functionality of wall that can
|> be used with X Terminals. Our administrator runs a wall to alert users of
|> a system coming down and since I don't have a console I never see it.
|> Such a program should be able to display any message to an X DISPLAY.

Sure!  I wrote a program called xwall.  It was written to avoid problems
with not seeing wall messages in buried or iconified windows.  It also
gets rid of the annoying problem of the same wall message being written
to a dozen windows on your display.

It also traps console messages on Ultrix and BSD derived systems.

There are two parts to xwall.  The xwall daemon, xwalld, connects to the display
and waits for xwall messages or console messages.  Xwalld will automatically
reestablish lost connections to the X server.  Xwall passes messages to xwalld via selections.

To fully utilize xwall, a modified /bin/wall from the 4.3 BSD distribution is provided.

xwall is available from shorty.cs.wisc.edu as pub/xwall.tar.Z.
xwall is also available from export.lcs.mit.edu as contrib/xwall.tar.Z.
-- 
Tim Theisen             Department of Computer Sciences
Systems Programmer      University of Wisconsin-Madison
tim@cs.wisc.edu         1210 West Dayton Street
(608)262-0438           Madison, WI   53706

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