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? You could set up swatch to monitor one of the log files in /var/log that gets updated when people log in (auth.log ...). As for pop-up windows, maybe use Tcl/Tk to write a simple script - see http://tcl.activestate.com/ for more info. Joel