On Tuesday 17 June 2008 00:24, Dotan Cohen wrote: > The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to > the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's > boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by > SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters. > I notice that when I shutdown her machine remotely, she gets a popup > message stating that the computer is going down, so I see that the > basic infrastructure of having root pop up messages to users is in > place. [...]
Hi, you can use the standard "xmessage" program to open a pop-up containing the message of your choice in X Window. To make this work the user who wants to show the message must be allowed access to the X display belonging to the user on whose screen the message has to appear. Best regards, Alfredo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
