On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:14:36PM -0600, Clay Fandre wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Jay Kline wrote: > > > On Wednesday 20 March 2002 01:41 pm, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > 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 > > > > That work with X? > > > > No. Try xmessage. If you use gnome you can put it in the session > startup programs. Yeah, try xmessage in conjunction with notifyme: 4(sam) crumley% apt-cache show notifyme Package: notifyme Description: A program to notify the user when other one logs in Notifyme is a GPL'ed Unix (tested under Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD) console utility that stays in a background (it isn't a daemon but it doesn't block terminal) and prints a message if a specified login and/or logout occurs. In a resource file ($HOME/notify.rc by default) you can specify (extended regular expressions are allowed) usernames, hostnames and terminals that should be monitored, optional messages that will be displayed and other options (beep, report logouts etc.) See notifyrc.sample for examples. It should be self explanatory. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org