Quoting Florin Iucha (florin at iucha.net):
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:16:23PM -0600, Rodney G. Garayt wrote:
> > I'd like to have a pop-up window with my own messages come up on the
> > desktop when my kids login.  I'm wondering what I could use to do this.
> > I have no clues on where to start with this idea.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Edit /etc/motd

Techincally that is not really a popup. :-)

But it will do the trick.

I assume the desktop is running Linux, right?

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