Re: MOTD implementation in gnome-session

[Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec suse cz>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:29 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > Rodrigo Moya wrote: 
> > Otherwise pure GNOME user without any terminal opened will loose UPS
> > power failure alert or report about incoming reboot or fatal failure
> > reports from syslogd.
> > 
> gnome-power-manager deals with that now, displaying a dialog to the user
> when battery power is critical

But for example apcupsd or nut uses wall. The same is valid for syslogd
and shutdown.

But we can do it in lower level in D-BUS - write will create D-BUS
events and GNOME will listen to them.

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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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