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Contributor KurtKraut on the Usability category

Broadcast message from root are not visible for users who are using X  
Written by juno eclipse the 29 Aug 09 at 03:53. Related project: Gnome. New
Let's say we have a machine with 3 users on it.
One of these users is working on GNOME.
The other two are connected with SSH.
Now, one of the user connected with SSH decide to shutdown the computer by doing :
shutdown -h +120
which will shutdown the computer in 2 hours.
When he does that, the other ssh connected user will see a broadcast message periodically that indicates to him that the computer will shutdown soon...but the user who are using GNOME can't see anything...
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Solution #1: Notify-osd to notify the user
Written by juno eclipse the 29 Aug 09 at 03:53.
Use the new notify-osd to notify the user that something is going on...and the same way, it should be done every ten minutes for example...(or maybe a logarithmic based interval between each notification)
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Solution #2: Notify-osd should display all wall/write messages
Written by Kamilion the 28 Sep 09 at 04:05.
The shutdown notification comes from 'wall'. On larger linux installations at work, we also use it to broadcast outage notifications of large services. 'write' is the command to send a message to a single user, unlike wall's broadcast.

Both of these commands are available by default.

Notify-osd should display both of these as well, and not be limited only to 'wall' shutdown messages.

If the message contains a URL, it should be highlighted and clickable.

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