* Thomas Koch <[email protected]> [2015-02-21 12:52]: > I'd like to notify all logged in users of some system event, e.g. from a > script started by cron, anacron or systemd timers. > > The internet is full of Q&A about this and many hacks to publish DBUS or > DESKTOP variables to the root user. > > But now with all this systemd, consolekit and desktop-notification stuff: I > wonder whether there shouldn't be a better solution. And if there isn't, what > would be the right place to add this?
How about wall(1)? It's simple, works cross platform and is the only mechanism that notifies all users[*] regardless of whether they are logged in via SSH, on a virtual console, a terminal emulator, or in a X session through a desktop notification via kwrited (by default in KDE) or xwrited in any other DE that has a XDG notification daemon. [*] unless they explicitly disabled wall/write messages -- Guido Berhoerster _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
