Kris Douglas wrote: > Hi, thanks for the help, I tried this before, and got the message > > > libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: dbus-launch failed to > autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. > > > It appeares i would have to actually be on the X server to run it, do you > know of a way to specify the location the message is sent to? like display > :0? > What you need to do when logged in remotely as root is:
DISPLAY=:0; XAUTHORITY=~owner_of:0/.Xauthority; export DISPLAY XAUTHORITY You will probably need to parse the output of `who` for the display and user name, that way you can send the message to everyone who is logged in to X on that machine. Also checkout zenity. Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
