Re: MOTD in g-s-d

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

On jeu, 2007-11-15 at 14:35 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Looking at my bugs in bugzilla, I found this patch I wrote long time
> ago:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159604
> 
> This patch has been in the openSUSE package for all this time, and it
> works great. Since it doesn't seem to fit well in gnome-session, what do
> you think about having this as a module in g-s-d?
> 
> It works in a way that, if nothing is in the /etc/motd file, it doesn't
> show anything, and if it's changed, the user is notified immediately
> with a notification bubble.
> 
> What do you think?

FWIW, I wrote a small program doing this which you can add to the
autostart list. It's called motdoux, but I don't think I ever published
it (it's nearly one year old). I guess I should put the code
somewhere... (well, it's so small that anybody can recode it in one
hour...)

Vincent

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