Try ktalkd if you don't mind a little KDE in the mix... It's designed to talk to $DISPLAY.
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Christian Jaeger wrote: <format recovered for the linewrap impaired> >Hello > >How to setup [y]talk[d] so that one gets talk requests under X? Using >gnome-terminal I just don't get the request message. I've tried xitalk >(potato) but for some reason it doesn't work, and/or I don't understand >it. (It's also quite ugly (sorry..)). Isn't there any WindowMaker app >that does the same? Or any other elegant solution? > >chj > > > -- The early worm gets the bird. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!