jludwig wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 01:57, Colin Charles wrote:
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 18:56, Panu Matilainen wrote:
I just had an incident - or almost had - which reminded me that AFAIK there's no way to receive wall-messages on GNOME (or KDE) unless you happen to have a terminal open. Developers probably always have a terminal or a dozen open at any given time but the casual user might not and thus simply miss a broadcast from root about system going down in 15min (for example) which could be nasty.
There's been a bug open about this for a while: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114793
I wonder what has happened to the internal RFE that was mentioned
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
Wall seems to do fine on my systems using KDE.
I must admit that I always have a terminal open, but KWrited picks up wall messages, and I did not have to ask it to.