[Cialug] graphical `write`?

[chris rheinherren]

I've got g(x)message installed.

I can send myself a pop up message using the terminal on the same machine.
I can send myself a pop up message using the terminal from another machine
while SSHing into the machine running the GUI.
However I cannot send another user on the machine a popup message on their
display.

chris at outlaw:~$ gmessage -display :0 -center "Test" &
[1] 23973
chris at outlaw:~$
chris at outlaw:~$ gmessage -display :1 -center "Test" &
[2] 23974
chris at outlaw:~$ No protocol specified
gxmessage: unable to initialize GTK

[2]+  Exit 1                  gmessage -display :1 -center "Test"


I get a no protocol specified error message and a unable to initialize GTK
messsage as well.

I am SSHing into the box from a remote location.



USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
chris    tty7     :0               Fri17   17:27m 55:35   0.99s
gnome-session
chris    pts/0    68.66.64.225     10:53    0.00s  0.71s  0.01s w
kristen  tty8     :1               08:01   17:27m 15:59   0.29s
gnome-session


Thoughts on how to fix it?

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 19:45, chris rheinherren <c.rheinherren at gmail.com>wrote:

> awesome.
> this all has helped out.
> thanks.
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 09:08, Eric Junker <eric at eric.nu> wrote:
>
>> On 1/28/2011 7:48 AM, chris rheinherren wrote:
>> > Let me rephrase my question.
>> >
>> > The other user, who would be using a GUI interface, GNOME to be
>> > specific. Does not need to reply to the message. They just need to see
>> > it. Like a popup message.
>>
>> This article, especially the comments have several suggestions.
>> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/407 They suggest gmessage,
>> xmessage, kdialog, zenity, osd_cat or notify-send which is bundled with
>> libnotify-bin.
>>
>> If you need to send a notification across the LAN something like
>> smbclient -M might work or LinPopUp http://linpopup2.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Eric
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