tim@cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen) (04/26/91)
Archive-name: x11/notifier/xwall/1991-04-23 Archive: shorty.cs.wisc.edu:pub/xwall.tar.Z [128.105.2.8] Original-posting-by: tim@cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen) Original-subject: Re: X Terminal message displayer Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <1024@ticnj.UUCP>, srs@ticnj.UUCP (Scott Strool) writes: |> Does anybody no of a program that has the functionality of wall that can |> be used with X Terminals. Our administrator runs a wall to alert users of |> a system coming down and since I don't have a console I never see it. |> Such a program should be able to display any message to an X DISPLAY. Sure! I wrote a program called xwall. It was written to avoid problems with not seeing wall messages in buried or iconified windows. It also gets rid of the annoying problem of the same wall message being written to a dozen windows on your display. It also traps console messages on Ultrix and BSD derived systems. There are two parts to xwall. The xwall daemon, xwalld, connects to the display and waits for xwall messages or console messages. Xwalld will automatically reestablish lost connections to the X server. Xwall passes messages to xwalld via selections. To fully utilize xwall, a modified /bin/wall from the 4.3 BSD distribution is provided. xwall is available from shorty.cs.wisc.edu as pub/xwall.tar.Z. xwall is also available from export.lcs.mit.edu as contrib/xwall.tar.Z. -- Tim Theisen Department of Computer Sciences Systems Programmer University of Wisconsin-Madison tim@cs.wisc.edu 1210 West Dayton Street (608)262-0438 Madison, WI 53706 -- comp.archives file verification shorty.cs.wisc.edu -rw-r--r-- 1 0 50 45153 Apr 23 09:50 pub/xwall.tar.Z found xwall ok shorty.cs.wisc.edu:pub/xwall.tar.Z
gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea) (05/08/91)
Archive-name: internet/notifier/zephyr/1991-04-26 Archive-directory: aeneas.mit.edu:/pub/zephyr/ [18.71.0.38] Original-posting-by: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea) Original-subject: Re: X Terminal message displayer Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) >Sounds like Zephyr, a window messaging system from MIT Project Athena, >would fit the bill here. Using Zephyr you can send "windowgrams" to >individual users, classes of users, or everyone logged in. > > < Stephen Is it available for anonymous FTP? Yes, you can get Zephyr via anonymous FTP from athena-dist.mit.edu. < Stephen MIT X Consortium -- comp.archives file verification aeneas.mit.edu total 205 drwxrwxr-x 2 5509 512 Apr 10 12:34 doc drwxrwxr-x 2 5509 512 Dec 26 1989 dist -rw-r--r-- 1 5509 2051 Dec 26 1989 README drwxr-xr-x 2 5509 1024 Dec 26 1989 src.split -r--r--r-- 3 5509 38208 Dec 18 1989 patch3 -r--r--r-- 3 5509 75725 Oct 27 1989 patch2 -rw-r--r-- 2 5509 24214 Oct 27 1989 makedepend.tar.Z -r--r--r-- 3 5509 57884 Oct 17 1989 patch1 -r--r--r-- 2 5509 5844 Oct 17 1989 src.zwgc.zwgc.el found zephyr ok aeneas.mit.edu:/pub/zephyr/